Adventurous means willing to take risks for the sake of experience. An adventurous traveller, adventurous cooking, feeling adventurous.
It is approving and covers small risks as readily as large — an adventurous choice from a menu, an adventurous holiday. Applied to a person it means open to the unfamiliar. Note adventuresome, which is the American variant; and that adventure comes from a Latin word meaning about to happen, so an adventure was originally simply whatever was coming, good or bad.
1adjectiveadventurousWilling to take risks for the sake of experience.
“She's an adventurous eater who will try anything, from snails to fried insects.”
adventurous is a quality of daring.
Old French aventuros comes from aventure, from Latin adventura, things about to happen. An adventure was first simply what chance brought, and the sense of excitement came later.
Old French
aventuros
Middle English
aventurous
English, today
adventurous
From Middle English aventurous, aunterous, auntrous, from Old French aventuros (whence French aventureux). by surface analysis, adventure + -ous.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA