All fortune-hunter synonyms
for·tune-hunt·er
F f noun fortune-hunter
- mercenary — working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal.
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- daredevil — Daredevil people enjoy doing physically dangerous things.
- traveler — a person or thing that travels.
- charlatan — You describe someone as a charlatan when they pretend to have skills or knowledge that they do not really possess.
- gambler — to play at any game of chance for money or other stakes.
- madcap — wildly or heedlessly impulsive; reckless; rash: a madcap scheme.
- hero — a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: He became a local hero when he saved the drowning child.
- wanderer — a Covenanter persecuted by Charles II and James II, especially one who fled home to follow rebellious Presbyterian ministers who refused to accept episcopacy.
- opportunist — a person who practices opportunism, or the policy of adapting actions, decisions, etc., to effectiveness regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles: He is an extreme opportunist and always thinks the ends justify the means.
- venturer — an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one: a mountain-climbing venture.
- heroine — a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- pioneer — a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
- pirate — software pirate
- romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- voyager — one of a series of U.S. space probes that obtained scientific information while flying by the planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.
- globetrotter — a person who travels regularly or frequently to countries all over the world.
- moneygrubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- stunt person — a stunt man or stunt woman.