unenterprising

adjective

Definition of unenterprisingnext
as in unadventurous

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unenterprising
  1. unadventurous
  2. unassertive
  3. unsocial
  4. embarrassed
  5. unsociable
  6. antisocial
  7. self-conscious
Adjective
  • An entrée that’s too often a boring fallback for the unadventurous diner is transformed, here, into a clever, dazzling reward.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
  • 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.
    — CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 28 June 2025
Definition of unadventurous
Adjective
  • This film, so seemingly unassertive, apparently rambling and plotless, has a devastating impact and aftershock.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Avoiding is unassertive and uncooperative, where an individual tends to give up on their own needs and acquiesce to the desires of others by disengaging from the situation altogether.
    — Ellen Choi, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Definition of unassertive
Adjective
  • Especially now, during the daunting age of unsocial media.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The choice of verbs on social media seems, to Miss Manners, to demonstrate a decidedly unsocial intent.
    — Washington Post, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
Definition of unsocial
Adjective
  • They are guaranteed to get embarrassed by your constant attempts to order in the local language.
    — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The demonstrators seemed embarrassed by the fact that they had been brought there by an Ed Sheeran concert.
    — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of embarrassed
Adjective
  • Hospitality fared well in Deputy’s study, making up half of the 10 happiest job sectors, despite the sector’s reputation for high stress, unsociable hours, and low pay.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
Definition of unsociable
Adjective
  • They were described by family members and neighbors as antisocial and chronically online.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Yet the rules of the real world don’t always apply virtually, and the behavior of the virtual world, in real life, is typically weird and antisocial.
    — Longreads, Longreads, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of antisocial
Adjective
  • The circumstances are objectively potent — but Udofia smothers them in such a barrage of cutesiness and self-conscious signalling that a wall rises between us and the play.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Amid so much belabored meanness, meager appeals to conscience scan more like self-conscious obligation, easily subsumed by impotence.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of self-conscious
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“Unenterprising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unenterprising. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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