单词 | adventurist |
释义 | adventuristn.adj. A. n. 1. A person inclined to seek adventure or take risks, esp. for profit; = adventurer n. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > daring > [noun] > one who is daring venturous1583 hardydardy1593 darer1614 audacity1658 adventurist1815 philobat1955 1815 Monthly Mag. Sept. 115/3 An Adventurist... An Adventurer. 1851 Mercersburg Rev. Nov. 590 Upon the domain of religion, are observed full as many adventurists, and fortune-seekers as elsewhere. 1880 Daily Arkansas Gaz. (Little Rock, Arkansas) 14 July 8/2 The ladies..armed themselves with clubs, and chased the woman out of town. This will no doubt serve as a warning to female adventurists. 1915 Sun (Baltimore) 2 Mar. 6/5 Let our people stay out of the ‘war zone’. If some adventurist, for his own profit wants to take the risk, let him..not call on Uncle Sam to help him out. 1943 Amer. Speech 18 310 A mid-western newspaper headline telling of the death of Ignatius Timothy Lincoln in Shanghai a few years ago read ‘Ignatius Lincoln, Adventurist, Dies’. 1999 D. Niederman Inner Game of Investing 121 When we think of an adventurist, we think of a risk taker,..a gambler. 2000 Prince Rupert (Brit. Columbia) Daily News (Nexis) 28 July 7 Die-hard adventurists can even sign up for a bush pilot cruise. 2. spec. A person inclined to political or military adventurism (see adventurism n. 1b). ΚΠ 1920 Public Opinion 16 Apr. 372/2 A..widespread satisfaction that our own military adventurists have been unable to stampede the Government into joining in a new ‘mud and blood’ policy..against Germany. 1936 J. G. Wright & H. R. Isaacs tr. L. Trotsky Whither France? iii. 138 The percentage of sectarians and adventurists, inevitable at the beginning, is winnowed away as the movement grows. 1963 Ann. Reg. 1962 214 Vigorously condemning Albanian ‘adventurists and dogmatists’. 1985 T. M. Franck Nation against Nation xii. 228 But in the Delegates' Lounge, even most Latin Americans distanced themselves from the ‘adventurists’ of Buenos Aires. 2004 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 232/3 As he entered the White House, Bush gave no signs of being the global adventurist he has since become. B. adj. Of or relating to adventurists; esp. characterized by political adventurism (adventurism n. 1b). ΚΠ 1907 R. Von Scala in H. F. Helmolt World's Hist. V. i. 118 The interminable alteration of the party of order and the adventurist party..by the breaking up of the Delyannists. 1929 L. D. Trotsky Draft Prog. Communist Internat. 115 The Soviet which was created in a hurry..was merely a masquerade for the adventurist putsch. 1934 tr. M. Litvinoff in Soviet Union Rev. 12 67/1 There are, however, circles, particularly among the militarists, of a more adventurist frame of mind. 1962 Guardian 28 Dec. 8/2 In accusing Mr. Kruschev's Cuban policy of having been both ‘adventurist’ and ‘capitulationist’ the Peking ‘People's Daily’ has scored a fair point. 1990 Washington Post (Nexis) 23 Sept. b2 Officials in the Turkish Foreign Ministry stress the inherent dangers of such an adventurist program [sc. supporting the United States against Iraq]. 2007 H. Kunzru My Revol. 31 Comrade Bob,..who'd only reluctantly deviated from his position that the march was recklessly adventurist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1815 |
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