enterprising
adjective
ready to undertake projects of importance or difficulty, or untried schemes; energetic in carrying out any undertaking.
unenterprising
-
a word derived from
enterprising.
Example Sentences
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His team, 476 minutes without a goal in open play, currently looks as unenterprising as under Unai Emery’s unpopular regime.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2020
Moreover, though they will not say so out loud, some foreign bank officers consider American bankers an unenterprising lot who can be outdone in customer service on their home grounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unless a local editor with courage and energy insists otherwise, the natural commercial impulse is to put out complacent, unenterprising papers that don't embarrass the local powers that be and make no waves.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Safe & Sane may also mean commonplace, unenterprising," said New York's Joseph Jastrow, speaking again.
From Time Magazine Archive
You make most of the men I know seem very unenterprising.
From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis
