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Risktaking vs Adventurous - What's the difference?

risktaking | adventurous |

As adjectives the difference between risktaking and adventurous

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

As a noun risktaking

is .

risktaking

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

    • Noun

    (en adjective)

    • adventurous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inclined to adventure; willing to incur risks; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring.
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    • , 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

    Related terms

    * adventure * adventurer * adventuresome * adventurism