unadventurous
Britishadjective
Explanation
If you like to stay safe and hate taking risks, you're unadventurous. You prefer to keep your feet firmly on the ground while your fearless friends try bungee jumping or skydiving. Unadventurous people aren't interested in extreme sports or unfamiliar food or anything else that requires a degree of boldness and daring. You can also talk about unadventurous menus (featuring boring or familiar food) or unadventurous art at a gallery show (with pleasant, familiar works of art rather than innovative ones). Unadventurous adds the un- ("not") prefix to adventurous.
Example Sentences
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It’s not that the art is bad, but much of it feels unadventurous or like reheated versions of earlier, more groundbreaking projects.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
This win and the much-improved first-half performance was still not enough to change their view, with a return to a more conservative and unadventurous display in the second half a cause for frustration.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
Overall, with most paintings bland, unadventurous or ungainly, he just isn’t that good — perhaps unsurprising for a serious career that didn’t last much more than a decade.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2025
To entice novice concertgoers, ECM isn’t falling back on the tried-and-true, under the assumption that a new listener is an unadventurous, easily frightened-off listener.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2022
Major O’Shaughnessy and his little daughter reached London on the following afternoon, after a comfortable and unadventurous journey.
From Pixie O'Shaughnessy by Groome, William H. C.
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