Antonyms for adventure
ædˈvɛn tʃərad·ven·ture

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 4 votes

1. adventure

   An accident is that which happens without any one's direct intention; a chance that which happens without any known cause. If the direct cause of a railroad accident is known, we can not call it a chance. To the theist there is, in strictness, no chance, all things being by divine causation and control; but chance is spoken of where no special cause is manifest: "By chance there came down a certain priest that way," Luke x, 31. We can speak of a game of chance, but not of a game of accident. An incident is viewed as occurring in the regular course of things, but subordinate to the main purpose, or aside from the main design. Fortune is the result of inscrutable controlling forces. Fortune and chance are nearly equivalent, but chance can be used of human effort and endeavor as fortune can not be; we say "he has a chance of success," or "there is one chance in a thousand," where we could not substitute fortune; as personified, Fortune is regarded as having a fitful purpose, Chance as purposeless; we speak of fickle Fortune, blind Chance; "Fortune favors the brave." The slaughter of men is an incident of battle; unexpected defeat, the fortune of war. Since the unintended is often the undesirable, accident tends to signify some calamity or disaster, unless the contrary is expressed, as when we say a fortunate or happy accident. An adventure is that which may turn out ill, a misadventure that which does turn out ill. A slight disturbing accident is a mishap. Compare EVENT; HAZARD.

   Antonyms:
   appointment, calculation, certainty, decree, fate, foreordination, intention, law, necessity, ordainment, ordinance, plan, preparation, provision, purpose

   Synonyms:
   accident, calamity, casualty, chance, contingency, disaster, fortuity, hap, happening, hazard, incident, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, possibility

   Preposition:
   The accident of birth; an accident to the machinery.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.3 / 4 votes

1. adventure

   Antonyms:
   matter-of-fact, matter-of-course

   Synonyms:
   incident, crisis, chance, hazard, occurrence, event, enterprise, casualty, undertaking, experiment, venture, trial, romance

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1. • Risk

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.5 / 4 votes

1. adventure, escapade, risky venture, dangerous undertakingverb

   a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)

   Synonyms:
   lark, risky venture, dangerous undertaking, escapade

2. gamble, chance, risk, hazard, take chances, adventure, run a risk, take a chanceverb

   take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

   "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"

   Synonyms:
   pretend, encounter, happen, guess, run a risk, chance, gamble, bump, venture, hazard, jeopardize, stake, take chances, find, take a chance, put on the line, lay on the line, risk

3. venture, hazard, adventure, stake, jeopardizeverb

   put at risk

   "I will stake my good reputation for this"

   Synonyms:
   pretend, impale, guess, run a risk, chance, gamble, back, take chances, gage, endanger, threaten, peril, menace, imperil, embark, venture, hazard, jeopardise, jeopardize, stake, punt, take a chance, post, risk, bet on, game

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:2.0 / 3 votes

1. adventure

   Synonyms:
   See Misadventure
   

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drudgery

   Submitted by anonymous on February 5, 2020  

How to use adventure in a sentence?

1. Erik Jensen:

   It was a fantasy, she had control, a control that maybe she didn’t have elsewhere. She lived a double life. Maybe she didn’t have much excitement in her life… It may have seemed like an adventure, but reality hits hard. Her fantasy had to come to an end.

2. Nikki Giovanni:

   We love because it's the only true adventure.

3. Tiger King:

   I never thought it could get to this level, i guess in some ways because so many people are trapped on their couch( because of the pandemic) and this train wreck of an adventure into magical wildlife land has somehow just caught everybody's attention.

4. Chief Executive Travis Kalanick:

   I was in China 70 days last year and 100 times a day someone would say 'Travis, no Internet technology company has ever succeeded. I don't know if you should be here', as an entrepreneur, that's the best thing you can hear ... you're always turning it into the positive, and trying to make the impossible possible is what we do. Adventure with a purpose is what we do.

5. Sarah Milewski:

   When my dad proposed, he told her, ‘Esther, I can’t promise you wealth, but I can promise you lots of adventure,' she had a lot, a lot of adventure.

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