Enterprising
adj, noun, verb ·4 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The undertaking of an enterprise; purposeful activity; doings.
"What gives these enterprisings their political character are the contentions, claims and experiences of the other."
- 1 present participle and gerund of enterprise form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 Displaying bravery and daring in attempting some task.
- 2 Very able and ingenious in business dealings or social advancement.
"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."
- 1 marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects wordnet
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More examples"He is young and inexperienced, but quite enterprising."
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