enterprising

/ˌɛntərˈpraɪzɪŋ/

/ˈɛntəpraɪzɪŋ/

If you are enterprising, you are creative and show initiative. Were you the kid who bought candy before school and sold it during school at a profit? If so, you were an enterprising little one.

Though it has the word, enterprise, in it and is often used to describe people who set up businesses to fill a need, enterprising can be used for any kind of display of creative initiative. Kids who decide on their own to build a skate park are enterprising, as is a dance company that is able to perform a piece on a shoestring budget.

Definitions of enterprising

1. adjective

   marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects
   “an enterprising foreign policy”

   “an enterprising young man likely to go far”

   synonyms:

   adventuresome, adventurous

   willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises

   ambitious, aspirational

   having a strong desire for success or achievement

   energetic

   possessing or exerting or displaying energy

   energetic, gumptious, industrious, up-and-coming

   working hard to promote an enterprise

   entrepreneurial

   willing to take risks in order to make a profit

   antonyms:

   unenterprising

   lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome

   unadventurous

   lacking in boldness

   ambitionless, unambitious

   having little desire for success or achievement

   slowgoing, unenergetic

   not inclined to be enterprising