enterprising en · ADJ
Meanings
- Displaying bravery and daring in attempting some task.
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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.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 22:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most enterprising | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more enterprising | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
enterprisingness · enterprisingly · unenterprising
Synonyms
Translations (14)
fi yritteliäs (very able and ingenious in business dealings) · fr entreprenant (very able and ingenious in business dealings) · de unternehmungslustig (very able and ingenious in business dealings) · ga borrúil (very able and ingenious in business dealings) · de unternehmerisch (very able and ingenious in business dealings) · hy ձեռներեց (very able and ingenious in business dealings) · it intraprendente (very able and ingenious in business dealings) · la experiens (very able and ingenious in business dealings) · sv initiativrik (very able and ingenious in business dealings) · mk претприемчив (very able and ingenious in business dealings) · bg предприе́мчив (very able and ingenious in business dealings) · ru предприи́мчивый (very able and ingenious in business dealings) · pl przedsiębiorczy (very able and ingenious in business dealings) · sv företagsam (very able and ingenious in business dealings)