Definition of "venturesome" []

• Disposed to venture or to take risks; daring. See Synonyms at adventurous. (adjective)
• Involving risk or danger; hazardous. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I thus felt it my duty to enter an urgent warning against the whole project, which I characterized as venturesome and dangerous, I recommended that counsels of moderation he given Austria, as I did not believe that the conflict could be localized (that is to say, it could not be limited to a war between Austria and Serbia)."
• "The Phoenix Company was known as a venturesome organization, as willing to send its fleet ramping out through the fog to the assistance of a distressed liner as to transport arms to West Indian or Central"
• "On the other hand, if he were timorously charged with loving her, it would have been like him to call the venturesome one a liar -- and mean it, too, in his heart."