Dictionary Entry
adventure
adventure is a 9-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
- 2noun
Risk; danger; peril.
- 3noun
The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
- 4noun
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
- 5noun
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
- 6noun
To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
- 7noun
To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
- 8intransitive verb
To try the chance; to take the risk.
- 9noun
a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
Synonyms
- 10verb
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
"When you buy these stocks you are gambling"
- 11verb
put at risk
"I will stake my good reputation for this"
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