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Antic is a related term of adventure.


As an adjective antic

is ancient.

As a noun adventure is

the encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.

As a verb adventure is

to risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.

antic

English

Alternative forms

* antick

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (architecture, arts) Grotesque, incongruous.
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  • Grotesque, bizarre; absurd.
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    • Related terms

    * ancient * antiquary * antiquarian * antiquated * antique * antiquity

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture, arts, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
  • A caricature.
  • (often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour.
  • * Wordsworth
    • And fraught with antics as the Indian bird / That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage.
  • * 1953 , John Christopher, Blemish
    • I saw the barren horror of your people's leisure with the million entertained by the antics of a tiny few
  • * 2007 , , Time To Add A Cute Kid To The Cast Questionable Content Number 951
    • Pintsize: Wait, don’t you want to know why I’m tied up and hanging from the ceiling? / Faye: Not really. Nighty night! / Pintsize: Shit! My wacky antics have jumped the shark!
  • A grotesque performer or clown.
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  • A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping

    • Verb

  • To perform antics.
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  • (obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
  • * , Act II, Scene VII:
    • Gentle lords, let's part; / You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb / Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue / Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost / Antick'd us all.
  • (rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
  • * 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 70:
    • She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements.
  • To make appear like a buffoon.
    • (Shakespeare)

    References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989 * *

    Anagrams

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    adventure

    English

    (wikipedia adventure)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) aventure, aunter, anter, from (etyl) aventure, from , which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
  • * Macaulay
    • He loved excitement and adventure .
  • A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
  • (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
  • * 1984 , Spyplane'' (review, in ''Crash , issue 4, May 1984) [http://www.crashonline.org.uk/04/spyplne.htm]
    • The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure .
  • * 1988 , Mike Gerrard, The Guild Of Thieves'' (review, in ''Your Sinclair , issue 29, May 1988) [http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/theguildofthieves.htm]
    • To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger
  • * 1992 , Larry Horsfield, The SU Guide to Playing and Writing Adventure Games'' (in ''Sinclair User magazine, issue 128, October 1992)
    • Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play an adventure , equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper. This so that you may draw a 'map' of the adventure as you move around.
  • (obsolete) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
  • * Milton
    • Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures , be fastened upon him individually.
  • (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
  • * Berners
    • He was in great adventure of his life.
    Derived terms
    * (remarkable occurrence) boredom
    Antonyms
    * abstention, peradventure, unadventurous
    Related terms
    * advent * advene

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) aventuren, auntren, which from (etyl) aventurer, from aventure.

    Verb

    (adventur)
  • To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
  • * Bible, Acts xix. 31
    • He would not adventure himself into the theatre.
  • To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
  • * Bunyan
    • Yet they adventured to go back.
  • * J. Taylor
    • Discriminations might be adventured .
  • To try the chance; to take the risk.
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    • Derived terms
    * adventurer * adventuresome * adventuress * adventurous * adventurously * adventurousness

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