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entrepreneurial

entrepreneurial

54 7.3
Willing to start new businesses and take risks to make them succeed
  • adjective
  • /ˌɒntrəprəˈnɜrɪəl/
translation icon : emprendedor
  • In contrast, digital media publishing success stories tend to follow a more capitalistic entrepreneurial pattern.
  • entrepreneurial activity
  • entrepreneurial spirit
  • entrepreneurial-minded

There's such a desire for people to make the entrepreneurial path more sacred.

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Examples

  • Maggie has always been an entrepreneurial spirit, starting her own businesses from a young age.

  • But we also have the most flexible, dynamic, entrepreneurial society the world has ever seen.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Do you believe that anyone can be entrepreneurial and make a successful business?

  • Every new business, however, provides an entrepreneurial test of a new idea.

    Academic text (1991)
  • America has the most talented, productive... and entrepreneurial workers in the world.

  • Third thing, do something entrepreneurial while you're young.

  • Maggie, you are an accomplished, intelligent, entrepreneurial woman.

  • Carmen joined her and listened as Spice told her about her latest entrepreneurial adventure.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Applied IT Innovation employed Agile Development methods to foster entrepreneurial skills.

    Academic text (2017)
  • I don't think broadcasters get enough credit for how creative and how entrepreneurial they are.

Synonyms

enterprising
vsentrepreneurial
18 4.7

Ready to try new projects and make them succeed

focuses on starting business ventures rather than general projects
venturesome
vsentrepreneurial
1 7.9

Willing to try new and risky things

focuses on starting business ventures rather than general adventurous acts

Antonyms

4.6

Does not want big changes and likes traditional values

How Entrepreneurial

trailblazing
1 5.6
venturesome
1 7.9
entrepreneurial
54 7.3
enterprising
18 4.7

Surface Forms

entrepreneurial positive

Morphology

entrepreneurial = entrepreneur (transparent) = entrepreneur + ial

Clear adjective formed from 'entrepreneur' + the productive suffix '-ial', meaning 'relating to or characteristic of an entrepreneur'.

Etymology

Entrepreneurial comes from the French word entrepreneur, which means someone who 'undertakes' a project or business—like the English words undertake and enterprise. So, being entrepreneurial means being ready to start new ventures and take risks.