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  • English Word Adventure Definition To try the chance; to take the risk.
  • English Word Adventured Definition of Adventure
  • English Word Adventureful Definition Given to adventure.
  • English Word Adventurer Definition One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
  • English Word Adventurer Definition A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
  • English Word Adventuresome Definition Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome.
  • English Word Adventuress Definition A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
  • English Word Adventuring Definition of Adventure
  • English Word Adventurous Definition Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.
  • English Word Adventurous Definition Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.
  • English Word Adventurously Definition In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.
  • English Word Adventurousness Definition The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
  • English Word Adverb Definition A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.
  • English Word Adverbial Definition Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.
  • English Word Adverbiality Definition The quality of being adverbial.
  • English Word Adverbialize Definition To give the force or form of an adverb to.
  • English Word Adverbially Definition In the manner of an adverb.
  • English Word Adversaria Definition A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.
  • English Word Adversaries Definition of Adversary
  • English Word Adversarious Definition Hostile.
  • English Word Adversary Definition One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.
  • English Word Adversary Definition Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic.
  • English Word Adversary Definition Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit.
  • English Word Adversative Definition Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force.
  • English Word Adversative Definition An adversative word.
  • English Word Adverse Definition Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.
  • English Word Adverse Definition Opposite.
  • English Word Adverse Definition In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse.
  • English Word Adverse Definition To oppose; to resist.
  • English Word Adversely Definition In an adverse manner; inimically; unfortunately; contrariwise.