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
It has no hero, and its principal character is an intellectual pygmy who is as real as mud and just as unenterprising.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"Safe & Sane may also mean commonplace, unenterprising," said New York's Joseph Jastrow, speaking again.
From Time Magazine Archive
Running his antiquated engine, the unenterprising man has to content himself with small returns and, in the meanwhile, sees his actual productive fund dwindling by the deterioration of the old equipment.
From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by John Bates Clark
