Word Meanings - ENTERPRISING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm. -- En"ter*pri`sing*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENTERPRISING)

• Adventurous
• Bold
• brave
• daring
• enterprising
• courageous
• gallant
• fearless
• venturesome
• rash
• chivalrous
• hazardous
• Audacious
• Insolent
• adventurous
• presumptuous
• valiant
• bold
• reckless

Related words: (words related to ENTERPRISING)

• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• DARREIN
  Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• GALLANTLY
  In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
• DARING
  Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
• INSOLENTLY
  In an insolent manner.
• ENTERPRISE
  1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak.
• ADVENTUROUSNESS
  The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
• DARE
  To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law Bacause they
• PRESUMPTUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being presumptuous.
• BRAVENESS
  The quality of state or being brave.
• CHIVALROUSLY
  In a chivalrous manner; gallantly; magnanimously.
• DARKENING
  Twilight; gloaming. Wright.
• DARLINGTONIA
  A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.
• DARER
  One who dares or defies.
• DARKLING
  In the dark. So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Shak. As the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Milton.
• DARKLE
  To grow dark; to show indistinctly. Thackeray.
• RECKLESS
  1. Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent. Chaucer. 2. Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless. It made the king as reckless as them diligent. Sir P. Sidney. Syn. -- Heedless; careless; mindless; thoughtless; negligent;
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• PANDARIZE
  To pander.
• CEDARN
  Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
• GENDARMERY
  The body of gendarmes.
• REDARGUE
  To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,
• HEBDOMADARY
  A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.
• ZEMINDARY; ZEMINDARI
  See ZAMINDARY
• PINDARICAL
  Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley.
• BORDAR
  A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier. The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. J. R. Green.
• RESSALDAR
  In the Anglo-Indian army, a native commander of a ressala.