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Adventurous vs Explore - What's the difference?

adventurous | explore |

As an adjective adventurous

is inclined to adventure; willing to incur risks; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring.

As a verb explore 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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author= Nick Miroff
  • , 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

    explore

    English

    Verb

    (explor)
  • (obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
  • To examine or investigate something systematically.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke
  • , title= In the News , volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}
  • To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
  • (medicine) To examine diagnostically.
  • To (seek) experience first hand.
  • To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
  • To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
  • *
  • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

    Synonyms

    * (examine or investigate systematically) delve into, research

    Derived terms

    * explorer