Inadventurous

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not adventurous.

    "Inadventurous, unstirred by impulses of practical ambition, I was capable of sitting twenty years teaching infants the hornbook, turning silk dresses and making children's frocks."

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"Inadventurous, unstirred by impulses of practical ambition, I was capable of sitting twenty years teaching infants the hornbook, turning silk dresses and making children's frocks."

Etymology

From in- + adventurous.

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