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Adventurous vs Confident - What's the difference?

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Adventurous is a related term of confident.


As adjectives the difference between adventurous and confident

is that adventurous is inclined to adventure; willing to incur risks; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring while confident is very sure of something; positive.

As a noun confident is

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adventurous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Inclined to adventure; willing to incur risks; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring.
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  • , volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] , passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.}}
  • Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash.
  • Antonyms

    * (inclined to adventure) nervous * (full of hazard) safe

    Synonyms

    * (inclined to adventure) enterprising, daring, dareful, venturesome, on the go, restless * (full of hazard) rash, foolhardy, presumptuous, hazardous

    Derived terms

    * adventurously * adventurousness

    confident

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • very sure of something; positive
  • I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.
  • self-confident
  • Antonyms

    * (self-confident) insecure, self-destructive

    Synonyms

    * (self-confident) self-assured

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Dryden)
    (South)
    (Webster 1913)