unadventurous
adjective
un·ad·ven·tur·ous
ˌən-əd-ˈven-ch(ə-)rəs 
: not adventurous
an unadventurous person
an architecturally unadventurous design
unadventurously
adverb
unadventurousness
noun
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Mirabella had famously repainted former editor Diana Vreeland’s red office a shade of beige, which became a metaphor for her reputation as being too unadventurous.
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Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 28 June 2025
The door series emphasizes one weakness of the show: its unadventurous hang.
—Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
The team became a kind of lazy shorthand for tastefully unadventurous filmmaking, and unfairly so.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Alas, while the comics themselves have prominence on-screen in their static form, the doc remains a proficient, engaging portrait, but an unadventurous one.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 25 Feb. 2025
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Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 28 June 2025
The door series emphasizes one weakness of the show: its unadventurous hang.
—Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
The team became a kind of lazy shorthand for tastefully unadventurous filmmaking, and unfairly so.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Alas, while the comics themselves have prominence on-screen in their static form, the doc remains a proficient, engaging portrait, but an unadventurous one.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 25 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unadventurous
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“Unadventurous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unadventurous. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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