Enterprising

Quick meaning: Enterprising is an adjective meaning Displaying bravery and daring in attempting some task.

Meaning

Displaying bravery and daring in attempting some task.

More Meanings

1. Very able and ingenious in business dealings or social advancement.
2. present participle and gerund of enterprise
3. The undertaking of an enterprise; purposeful activity; doings.

Example Sentences

What gives these enterprisings their political character are the contentions, claims and experiences of the other.

It was now settled that every body was to be amused by her coarse jest and her odd expressions, and therefore everybody was amused. Moreover, there was another great secret of her popularity; all in her company luxuriated in a little complacent sense of their own superiority,—one of the most agreeable of the senses to indulge. Such was the enterprising individual whose saloon was to-night a representation of the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

Word Forms

• enterprisings

Synonyms for enterprising

Depending on context, synonyms include go-getting, ambitious, aggressive, bold, energetic, industrious.

Antonyms for enterprising

Common opposites include unenterprising.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include venturesome, industrious, gumptious, pushy, ambitious, pushful.

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