Adventurous vs Dangerous - What's the difference?
adventurous | dangerous |
Inclined to adventure; willing to incur risks; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring.
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, title= Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash.
Full of danger.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:If they incline to think you dangerous / To less than gods
In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
(lb) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
*(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
*:My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; / My lord to me is hard and dangerous .
(lb) Reserved; not affable.
*(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
*:Of his speech dangerous
As adjectives the difference between adventurous and dangerous
is that adventurous is inclined to adventure; willing to incur risks; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring while dangerous is full of danger.adventurous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Nick Miroff
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.}}
Antonyms
* (inclined to adventure) nervous * (full of hazard) safeSynonyms
* (inclined to adventure) enterprising, daring, dareful, venturesome, on the go, restless * (full of hazard) rash, foolhardy, presumptuous, hazardousDerived terms
* adventurously * adventurousnessdangerous
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Forby. Bartlett.
