Enterprising
['entəpraɪzɪŋ] or ['ɛntɚpraɪzɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects; 'an enterprising foreign policy'; 'an enterprising young man likely to go far' .
Edited by Horace--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm.
Typed by Katie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Adventurous, venturesome, venturous, dashing, daring, audacious, bold.[2]. Active, prompt, alert, stirring, smart, energetic, efficient, spirited, zealous, strenuous, eager, on the alert, in earnest.
Editor: Pierre
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Active, bold, daring, adventurous, speculative, dashing, venturesome
ANT:Inactive, timid, inadventurous, cautious
Typist: Tim
Examples
- She is at Osborne's Hotel in the Adelphi at this moment, unless your enterprising friend has run away with her since I came out this morning. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The first permanent Edison station in Europe was that at Milan, Italy, for which the order was given as early as May, 1882, by an enterprising syndicate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We can tolerate the Oracle very easily, but we have a poet and a good-natured enterprising idiot on board, and they do distress the company. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They are not naturally daring and enterprising, but home-loving and affectionate. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The more enterprising university students found, marked, and digested the Arabic Aristotle he had made accessible to them in Latin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The enterprising Teuton divided a hogshead into two parts. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An oyster is of a retiring disposition, and not lively--not even cheerful above the average, and never enterprising. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In one field of knowledge particularly we might have expected the Romans to have been alert and enterprising, and that was geography. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But, on the other hand, man is usually a wandering and enterprising animal, for whom there exist few insurmountable barriers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The enterprising lady followed the mumming company through the gate in the white paling, and stood before the open porch. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Another and better gig-mill would rise on the ruins of this, and perhaps a more enterprising owner come in my place. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It is here, if I mistake not, that we see a character far superior to that of the able, or enterprising, or industrious mathematician; it is here that we see the philosopher. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typist: Tim