Adventurous vs Explore - What's the difference?
adventurous | explore |
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.
(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
To examine or investigate something systematically.
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(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.
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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
.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 * adventurousnessexplore
English
Verb
(explor)Katie L. Burke
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.}}
- 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.