What does adventurous mean?
Word: Adventurous
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Adventurous means willing to take risks and try new, exciting things. It can also describe an activity that is full of excitement.
Synonyms: daring, bold, brave, enterprising
Antonyms: cautious, fearful
How do you spell adventurous?
Syllables: ad - ven - tur - ous
Tricky part: Students often slip an e in before ous and write adventureous; the word has none there.
Watch out for: adventureous, adventurus, advenchurous
Memory tip: Think of famous and nervous: no e comes before their ous, and none comes here either.
Adventurous in a sentence
Example 1: My adventurous cousin went paragliding in Bir Billing.
Example 2: Hana is an adventurous eater and tried every stall at the food fair.
Example 3: The adventurous kitten climbed to the top of the cupboard.
Fun Fact
Adventurous and adventure go back to the Latin adventurus, about to arrive, from the same verb that gives advent, the coming of something.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
adventurous
a) timid
b) reckless
c) curious
d) eager
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a) timid. A timid person is shy and fearful, the opposite of adventurous.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
adv_nt_rous
a) e, u
b) e, e
c) a, u
d) i, u
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a) e, u. Adventurous is built on adventure: ven, then tur.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
sounetvadru
a) adventures
b) adventurer
c) advantageous
d) adventurous
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d) adventurous. Adventures and adventurer have no o, and advantageous needs a g and two more a's.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) adventurous
b) generous
c) jelous
d) enormous
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c) jelous. Jealous has ea after the j; the other three are spelt correctly.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. An adventurous traveller is likely to ____.
a) visit places few people go
b) stay at home all year
c) cancel every trip
d) avoid trying new food
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a) visit places few people go
2. Which remark sounds most adventurous?
a) Shall we take the trail nobody has tried?
b) I'd rather stay at home this weekend.
c) That cliff path looks far too risky.
d) We should do just what we did last year.
Show answer
a) Shall we take the trail nobody has tried?
