unadventurous
adjective
un·ad·ven·tur·ous
ˌən-əd-ˈven-ch(ə-)rəs 
: not adventurous
an unadventurous person
an architecturally unadventurous design
unadventurously
adverb
unadventurousness
noun
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The team became a kind of lazy shorthand for tastefully unadventurous filmmaking, and unfairly so.
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
Our children are unadventurous eaters.
—Damon Young, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
The way de Montebello sees it, the next challenge is persuading the geographically unadventurous to make the trip uptown.
—Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 31 Dec. 2022
When asked to draw a picture of a flower that does not exist, monolingual children were fairly unadventurous, drawing perhaps a flower that was missing its leaves, or a flower with only one petal.
—Julie Sedivy, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2012
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
Our children are unadventurous eaters.
—Damon Young, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
The way de Montebello sees it, the next challenge is persuading the geographically unadventurous to make the trip uptown.
—Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 31 Dec. 2022
When asked to draw a picture of a flower that does not exist, monolingual children were fairly unadventurous, drawing perhaps a flower that was missing its leaves, or a flower with only one petal.
—Julie Sedivy, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2012
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“Unadventurous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unadventurous. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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