Adventurous vs Strenuous - What's the difference?
adventurous | strenuous | Related terms |
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.
Urgent, ardent, zealous.
Requiring great exertion.
* 1961 : J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato . In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
Adventurous is a related term of strenuous.
As adjectives the difference between adventurous and strenuous
is that adventurous is inclined to adventure; willing to incur risks; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring while strenuous is urgent, ardent, zealous.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 * adventurousnessstrenuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We can achieve this god?likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.