unadventurous

adjective

un·​ad·​ven·​tur·​ous ˌən-əd-ˈven-ch(ə-)rəs How to pronounce unadventurous (audio)
: not adventurous
an unadventurous person
an architecturally unadventurous design
unadventurously adverb
unadventurousness noun

Examples of unadventurous in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The team became a kind of lazy shorthand for tastefully unadventurous filmmaking, and unfairly so. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024 Our children are unadventurous eaters. Damon Young, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022 The way de Montebello sees it, the next challenge is persuading the geographically unadventurous to make the trip uptown. Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 31 Dec. 2022 When asked to draw a picture of a flower that does not exist, monolingual children were fairly unadventurous, drawing perhaps a flower that was missing its leaves, or a flower with only one petal. Julie Sedivy, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2012 See all Example Sentences for unadventurous 

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Word History

First Known Use

1671, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unadventurous was in 1671

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“Unadventurous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unadventurous. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.

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