enterprising
adjective
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Synonyms & Antonyms for enterprising
Synonyms
aggressive, ambitious, assertive, fierce, go-getting, high-pressure, in-your-face, militant, pushy, self-asserting, self-assertive
Antonyms
ambitionless, low-pressure, nonassertive, unaggressive, unambitious, unassertive, unenterprising
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This kind of thing may be funny (and again: New Yorkers: so enterprising! so tough!) but this is the reality. — Kelsey Keith, Curbed, "My all-time favorite sofas," 2 Aug. 2019 Thousands of years ago, some enterprising cook (and total genius) figured out that adding cucumbers to a brine and waiting a while made arguably the world鈥檚 favorite way to eat a cucumber. — Justin Ward, ExpressNews.com, "How to make simple pickles at home," 7 Aug. 2019 Some enterprising bakers are sending cookie dough into orbit to answer these questions and many more. — Mika Mckinnon, Quartz, "Astronauts will bake cookies in space to see how they cook in zero gravity," 1 Aug. 2019 In 1999, Arnault also invested in a small but enterprising DVD rental firm. — Phil Boucher, Fortune, "Bernard Arnault Just Became the World鈥檚 Second-Richest Man. How Did He Make His Billions?," 20 July 2019 In this case, Alex and Oded opened with a phishing attack over WhatsApp, but a more enterprising attacker might instead have begun with a watering-hole attack. — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, "Security firms demonstrate subdomain hijack exploit vs. EA/Origin," 26 June 2019 This should enable enterprising Democratic leaders to experiment with new ways of appealing to Republicans, especially those who changed their allegiance from Barack Obama to Donald Trump in 2016. — The Economist, "A large share of Republicans hold progressive economic views," 21 June 2019 The unlikely union of the Beatles great, a bike-shop employee in Palo Alto, and a promising if underachieving technology is the accomplishment of Scott Broock, once an enterprising executive with a fledgling camera company called Jaunt VR. — Aric Jenkins, Fortune, "The Fall and Rise of VR: The Struggle to Make Virtual Reality Get Real," 20 June 2019 An enterprising television station said the temperature hit 105 inside a BART train one afternoon. — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, "A hot day in San Francisco? That鈥檚 earthquake weather," 15 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'enterprising.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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