What's the difference between risky and venturesome?

Risky


Definition:

  • (a.) Attended with risk or danger; hazardous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first is risky in many instances and may allow an ac-ive cancer to get out of control.
  • (2) As part of the plan, the treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will guarantee against the "possibility of unusually large losses" on up to $306bn of risky loans and securities backed by commercial and residential mortgages.
  • (3) Until that point, Bravo had looked assured, often straying 30 yards off his goal-line and confident enough to try a couple of passes that many goalkeepers would consider too risky.
  • (4) The 140-year-old mutual, the UK's 12th largest building society, will confirm that it lost £26m last year after risky investments in the property market.
  • (5) He said he'd always been a risky driver and told me a story about arguing with Esther and Bella Freud's mother, Bernadine Coverley, in the car, and putting his foot down and accelerating without looking "just to make a point.
  • (6) That is an awkward, indeed risky, time to be contemplating takeoff.
  • (7) Towbacks, turnbacks are risky, they’re dangerous and they’re illegal.
  • (8) The lender will also have to take a 5% hit, to ensure it does not indulge in offering risky loans.
  • (9) The more contemporary you go, the more risky the drama.
  • (10) Even at this much lower price, it is a risky investment."
  • (11) Genevieve Edwards, executive director of communication and health improvement for THT, says the cut is short-sighted and risky.
  • (12) A small percentage of our population however uses self medication in a risky and uncritical way.
  • (13) David Holmes, chief executive of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering, warned yesterday that inter-cultural adoptions were risky.
  • (14) A government-backed review recommended that some of the best-paid bank staff, who are currently shielded from scrutiny, should be included in annual reports as part of a wide range of measures designed to discourage risky behaviour.
  • (15) Three out of four psychiatrists said that the inadequacy of child and adolescent mental health crisis services meant that the young person’s mental state could deteriorate further, while 71% said it resulted in an increased chance of risky behaviour, including impulsive behaviour or aggression to others.
  • (16) He added: "The levy has been designed to encourage less risky funding and complements the wider agenda to improve regulatory standards and enhance financial stability.
  • (17) Interventions are needed to assist drug abusers in reducing risky drug and sexual behavior.
  • (18) Percutaneous muscle biopsy offers certain advantages over the open technique: it can be performed in an outpatient clinic or as day surgery, usually with a local anesthetic for children greater than 12 years of age, and thus is less costly, more efficient, and less risky.
  • (19) By doing risky things, we are toughening ourselves up for a dangerous world.
  • (20) If Rose has the meniscus removed that would allow him to return to the league quicker but it's a risky move, one that could shorten his career.

Venturesome


Definition:

  • (a.) Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ten of the 16 primary 16PF scores were significantly different and generally described an altruistic but assertive and venturesome propensity to manage others.
  • (2) Both impulsiveness and venturesomeness were found to be multidimensional, although the subfactors differed slightly from those suggested by the Eysencks.
  • (3) CAF's own Venturesome fund has been going 10 years, but it depends on philanthropists donating money that is then recycled over and over as charities pay it back at very low interest – or else donors get their capital back without interest.
  • (4) Results indicate that Factor C (high ego strength), Factor F (liveliness and enthusiasm), Factor H (venturesomeness), Factor Q1 (experimenting), Factor Q3 (high self-concept integration), Factor Q4 (tenseness), Factor QII (anxiety) are significantly related to one or more index of success (satisfaction, size of practice, income and professional advancement).
  • (5) Measures included the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory, Diagnostic Interview Schedule Antisocial Personality Disorder diagnosis, Elliott-Huizinga Lifetime Events Scale, Eysenck's Impulsiveness-Venturesomeness-Empathy scales, and a laboratory measure of aggression patterned after the Buss 'aggression machine'.
  • (6) Impulsivity and venturesomeness were uncorrelated with alcohol use and responses to alcohol in females, but as with males, impulsivity was related to the occurrence of alcohol use problems in females.
  • (7) The Go CNV recorded at the vertex was found to relate to a variety of impulsiveness-related measures, in particular to Eysenck's Impulsivity, Venturesomeness and Psychoticism.
  • (8) The personality traits of "venturesomeness" and "impulsiveness" were significantly correlated with all three recklessness factors.
  • (9) This study investigates the structures of impulsiveness and venturesomeness and their association with extraversion, emotional stability-neuroticism, and psychoticism among 170 Australian adolescents.
  • (10) Three hundred forty-two male and female subjects from the Colorado Alcohol Research on Twins and Adoptees returned a mailed questionnaire that included the Eysenck Impulsivity-Venturesomeness-Empathy scales.
  • (11) No support was found for the view that impulsiveness narrowly defined is pathological, although the impulsiveness and venturesomeness subfactors were found to be differentially related to extraversion, emotional stability-neuroticism, and psychoticism.
  • (12) Associations between platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity and scale scores from the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, the Impulsiveness-Venturesomeness-Empathy inventory and the Karolinska Scales of Personality were studied in 32 female and 29 male students (age range 17-19 years).
  • (13) On the fifth day of testing, control rats were most venturesome in the open field.
  • (14) Impulsivity was significantly correlated with higher levels of self-reported alcohol use and the occurrence of alcohol use problems in males, while both impulsivity and venturesomeness (sensation seeking) were significantly correlated with lessened motor impairment following alcohol use in males.