Adventitious, a. Accidental, incidental, extrinsic, extraneous, foreign, non-essential.
Adventure, n. 1. Chance, hazard, fortuity, contingency, risk, venture, stake.
2. Hazardous enterprise, bold undertaking.
3. Event, incident, occurrence, transaction, passage, contingency.
4. (Com.) Speculation.
Adventure, v. a. Hazard, venture, risk, peril, imperil, put to hazard, put at risk, put in danger.
Adventure, v. n. Dare, venture, take the risk, run the risk, incur the hazard.
Adventurous, a. 1. Bold, daring, courageous, venturesome, venturous, chivalrous, doughty, enterprising.
2. Rash, reckless, precipitate, headlong, foolhardy, full of hazard.
Adversaria, n. pl. Notes, memoranda, remarks, note-book, journal, commonplace-book.
Adversary, n. 1. Enemy, foe, antagonist, opponent, adverse party.
2. [With The prefixed.] Devil, Satan.
Adverse, a. 1. Contrary, opposing, unpropitious, counteracting, conflicting, head, not propitious.
2. Hostile, inimical, antagonistic.
3. Unprosperous, untoward, unlucky, unfortunate, calamitous, disastrous.
Adversity, n. Misfortune, calamity, affliction, trouble, suffering, woe, disaster, distress, misery, ill-luck, bad luck, broken fortunes, hard life, frowns of fortune.
Advert to, 1. Observe, remark, regard, heed, consider, notice, mark, view, give heed to, take notice of, pay attention to, attend to, look to, see to, give heed to, have an eye to, give a thought to, look after.
2. Refer to, allude to.
Advertence, n. Attention, heed, regard, observance, observation, notice, consideration, heedfulness, mindfulness.
Advertency, n. Attention, heed, regard, observance, observation, notice, consideration, heedfulness, mindfulness.
Advertise, v. a. 1. Announce, publish, declare, promulgate, trumpet, proclaim, make known, spread abroad, noise abroad, give notice of, lay before the public, bring to the notice of the public, make proclamation of.
2. Offer for sale.
Advertisement, n. Announcement, notification, information, notice, proclamation, promulgation, trumpeting.
Advice, n. 1. Counsel, suggestion, instruction, recommendation, admonition, warning, caution, exhortation.
2. Intelligence, information, notice, notification, tidings, word.
Advisability, n. Expediency, advisableness.
Advisable, a. Expedient, proper, fit, prudent, desirable, fit to be advised.