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Audacity vs Adventurous - What's the difference?

audacity | adventurous |

As a noun audacity

is insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional.

As an adjective adventurous is

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

audacity

English

Noun

(audacities)
  • Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional.
  • The brash private had the audacity to criticize the general.
    Somebody never pays his loans, yet he has the audacity to ask the bank for money.
  • *
  • Fearlessness, intrepid daring.
  • Synonyms

    * (insolent boldness) audaciousness, outdaciousness, temerity

    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