What's the difference between adventurous and audacious?

Adventurous


Definition:

  • (n.) Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.
  • (n.) Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.
  • (2) There has been a tendency to portray Russians as aggressively imperialistic at heart, a homogeneous bloc thirsty for military adventures.
  • (3) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
  • (4) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
  • (5) The west's recent military adventures bear testimony to that.
  • (6) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
  • (7) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
  • (8) Foodmakers will also burble on about their “philosophy” or their “mission” or their “strong core values” or the “adventure” or “journey” they have been on in order to get their products triumphantly shelved in Waitrose .
  • (9) The development of knowledge for nursing poses an exciting, scholarly adventure for the profession's scientists.
  • (10) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
  • (11) Channel 5's Val Kilmer action adventure film repeat Thirteen: Conspiracy, averaged 1 million viewers, a 5.5% share, rising to 1.1 million and 5.8% including Channel 5+1.
  • (12) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
  • (13) But one source who knows the retailer well says Tesco's US adventure was most severely hit by the timing of the sub-prime crisis and the subsequent global economic downturn.
  • (14) Venom is attractive because the character can exist without Spider-Man and has embarked on its own adventures when in sync with Brock.
  • (15) "The audience is up for a bit of excitement and adventure.
  • (16) The children generated three original stories, retold two adventure stories, and then answered two sets of comprehension questions after each retelling.
  • (17) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
  • (18) It’s not an adventure: not that much happens here,” the spouse of one said.
  • (19) Maxwell's life was as adventurous as Moneypenny's was unchanging.
  • (20) Avery has built its reputation on several well-liked bottled beers and a whole lot more taproom-only brews, usually among Boulder's most adventurous and varied.

Audacious


Definition:

  • (a.) Daring; spirited; adventurous.
  • (a.) Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent.
  • (a.) Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The polyvalent and adaptable material which we have developed (sliding splint-staple) and which we also use in thoracic traumatology (thoracic flaps), has allowed us to perform audacious corrections for deformities or wide resections for tumours since 1980.
  • (2) Who else in American politics would be so audacious as to have one spouse accept money from foreign governments and businesses while the other charted American foreign policy?” Schweizer asks.
  • (3) China has penetrated the Foreign Office's internal communications in the most audacious example yet of the growing threat posed by state-sponsored cyber-attacks, it emerged tonight.
  • (4) Reading the extraordinary details in Michael Beloff’s independent ethics commission report and the second part of Dick Pound’s independent commission report, published on Thursday , it is becoming increasingly clear Diack and his two sons, plus his legal counsel Habib Cissé, were running an audacious shadow operation that grasped opportunity where ever it came.
  • (5) Five minutes into the second half the Nigerian attacker produced an audacious flick over the head of Borges before sending a pinpoint cross to Smith, only for the veteran striker to head on to the crossbar.
  • (6) There was still time for Saborio to try an audacious lob from distance to steal the game, but Nielsen, who'd looked ponderous in his movements all game, was able to watch this one safely over.
  • (7) The launch of Sky Atlantic follows the broadcaster's audacious £150m, five-year deal to snap up the exclusive UK TV rights to US cable channel HBO's entire archive, new HBO programming and a first-look deal on all co-productions.
  • (8) An audacious youth leader once tipped as a future president of South Africa has been expelled from the governing African National Congress (ANC).
  • (9) In a recent Facebook post, he called The Putin Interviews “a four-hour audacious climax to my strange life as an American film-maker”.
  • (10) One of the brewery’s two founders, James Watt, pronounced the drink “an audacious blend of eccentricity, artistry and rebellion”.
  • (11) When builders moved in a few weeks ago, it was marked in flamboyant Polish style with a commissioned "dance" for the diggers by director Robert Florczak, whose audacious multimedia Macbeth debuted at last year's Shakespeare festival.
  • (12) Under Rossetto, stories written in the UK had to be vetted to see if they were sufficiently "Wired" - with San Francisco (US Wired's base) even vetoing the attempt to bring in two audacious hires: Douglas Adams as editor and Neville Brody as creative director.
  • (13) The different sketches and 3D renditions of the ten projects make audacious and compelling viewing (see them here ).
  • (14) He breathed new life into a somewhat static side, heading their second equaliser from a corner, almost scoring with a fabulously audacious shot and then creating what seemed to be the winner for Mike Williamson.
  • (15) In his speech on Monday, he makes an audacious raid on Labour territory, claiming the Tories are now the “true party of labour”.
  • (16) He said the organoid was "audacious and the similarities with some of the features of a human brain really quite astounding".
  • (17) (1966), worked with Simpson, Arnold Wesker and John Arden , and, having staged Howard Barker ’s Cheek in 1970, collaborated with him in 1986 on the audacious Women Beware Women, adapting Middleton’s Jacobean original with poisonous puritanism.
  • (18) The Zappa statue was audaciously suggested by local artists in 1992, as a slightly flippant test of their country's newfound democratic freedoms; to their surprise, the authorities called their bluff.
  • (19) Even more audaciously, they then went on to post real-time email exchanges between Gawker staffers that they had hacked into, in which the employees discussed how they were coming under attack.
  • (20) Where did she find the strength for this audacious patricide?