Enterprising

What do we mean by enterprising?

Showing initiative and willingness to undertake new projects. adjective

Having a disposition for or a tendency to enterprise; ready to undertake, or resolute or prompt to attempt, important or untried schemes.

Synonyms Adventurous, Enterprising. Rash, etc. (see adventurous); alert, stirring, energetic, smart, wide-awake.

Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt. adjective

Displaying bravery and daring in the attempt of some task. adjective

Being very able and ingenious in business dealings. adjective

Marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects adjective

To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.

To treat with hospitality; to entertain.

Words that are spelled similarly to enterprising:
enterprising, unenterprising.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word enterprising:
entrepreneurial, fisherman, entrepreneurs, spirit, businessman, innovative, settlers, enterprises, businesses, publisher, farmer, enterprise, profit, self, wealth, merchant, progressive, conventional, sell, trading, citizens, individuals, innovation, maritime, earn, technologies, tourist, women, young, solutions, mill, pioneer, woman, reporting.

Words that rhyme with enterprising:
advertising, patronizing, tantalizing, rising, comprising, mesmerizing, uprising, merchandising, unsurprising, analyzing, compromising, utilizing, surprising, downsizing, proselytizing, polarizing, sizing, emphasizing, organizing, antagonizing, exercising, demoralizing, devising, self-aggrandizing, jeopardizing, arising, advising, aggrandizing, publicizing, appetizing, scrutinizing, galvanizing, revising, synthesizing, satirizing, verbalizing, energizing, realizing, socializing, mobilizing, supervising, criticizing, stabilizing, chastising, dehumanizing, despising, apologizing, disguising, unappetizing, sanitizing, rationalizing, destabilizing, normalizing, prioritizing, recognizing, lysing, oxidizing, moralizing, harmonizing, revitalizing, finalizing, fantasizing, generalizing, immunizing, synchronizing, womanizing, capitalizing, maximizing, amortizing, authorizing, minimizing, specializing, summarizing, democratizing, temporizing, alphabetizing, centralizing, improvising, wising, fraternizing, prizing, characterizing, demonizing, neutralizing, editorializing, memorizing, monopolizing, visualizing, digitizing, customizing, ionizing, theorizing, immobilizing, paralyzing, modernizing, standardizing, subsidizing, tranquilizing, crystallizing, stigmatizing.

Adjectives that are often used to describe enterprising:
more, most, least, less, little, intelligent, few, active, successful, hardy, free, virtual, boldest, bravest, much, very, cooperative, discontented, ablest, former, shrewd, industrious, able, largest, shrewdest, energetic, wealthiest, brave, richest, strongest, oldest, scale, outstandingly, capitalistic, ardent, capitalist, ambitious, toughest, bolder, unselfishly, opulent, thoughtful.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective enterprising:
spirit, man, men, people, merchants, merchant, citizens, individuals, publisher, individual, firm, reporter, person, genius, farmers, citizen, farmer, woman, character, officer, company, traveller, fellow, traders, journalist, manager, businessman, publishers, gentleman, group, members, city, women, americans, enemy, youth, population, nature, american, student, spirits, trader, manufacturer, town, editor, persons, proprietor, class, mind, leader, disposition, businessmen, community, firms, teacher, lady, owner, commander, race, boy, agent, leaders, companies, family, gentlemen, photographer, nation, officers, prince, students, newspaper, dealer, yankee, soul, inhabitants, entrepreneur, settlers, manufacturers, owners, ambition, captain, member, capitalists, friend, temper, managers, general, capitalist, printer, entrepreneurs, management, proprietors, chief, travellers, bookseller, englishman, pioneer, self, engineer.

Words that sound like enterprising:
enterprising, enterprises, enterprise, interpreting, unsurprising, enterpriser, enterprise zone, interposing, enterprize, interpretive, underwriting, interbreeding, interspersing.