unadventuresome
Avoiding all risks
Unadventuresome describes someone unwilling to take risks or try new experiences.
The word suggests caution bordering on timidity: He was too unadventuresome to order anything but the steak.
It can also describe choices or lifestyles that avoid novelty: an unadventuresome career path, unadventuresome cooking.
Exercising sound judgment
- waryGuardedly alert
- circumspectCarefully considering consequences
- carefulExercising caution and attention
- guardedWary and restrained
hesitant · chary · vigilant · discreet · watchful · skeptical · reserved · judicious
Uncritically self-satisfied
- contentWhat something contains
- passiveNot actively participating
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
- unmotivatedLacking incentive or drive
uninspired · lackadaisical · settled · stagnant · unenthusiastic · indifferent · unaspiring · undriven
Following long-held customs
- conformistOne following accepted norms
- orthodoxConforming to established belief
- staidSerious and conventional
- mainstreamDominant cultural current
conservative · old-fashioned · provincial · bourgeois · predictable · unoriginal · by-the-book · strait-laced
Done by routine
- repetitiveMarked by recurrence
- methodicalOrganized and deliberate
- systematicFollowing ordered procedures
- structuredArranged in organized form
unchanging · predictable · mundane · monotonous · plodding · regimented · unvarying · formulaic
Reserved and retiring
- meekHumbly unassertive
- fearfulFull of fright
- apprehensiveFearful of future events
- nervousUneasy and apprehensive
timorous · fainthearted · cowardly · skittish · mousy · spineless · lily-livered · chicken-hearted
prudent
Exercising sound judgment
- waryGuardedly alert
- circumspectCarefully considering consequences
- carefulExercising caution and attention
guarded · hesitant · chary · vigilant · discreet · watchful · skeptical · reserved · judicious · tentative
complacent
Uncritically self-satisfied
unmotivated · uninspired · lackadaisical · settled · stagnant · unenthusiastic · indifferent · unaspiring · undriven · easygoing
traditional
Following long-held customs
- conformistOne following accepted norms
- orthodoxConforming to established belief
- staidSerious and conventional
mainstream · conservative · old-fashioned · provincial · bourgeois · predictable · unoriginal · by-the-book · strait-laced · square
habitual
Done by routine
- repetitiveMarked by recurrence
- methodicalOrganized and deliberate
- systematicFollowing ordered procedures
structured · unchanging · predictable · mundane · monotonous · plodding · regimented · unvarying · formulaic · rut
shy
Reserved and retiring
- meekHumbly unassertive
- fearfulFull of fright
- apprehensiveFearful of future events
nervous · timorous · fainthearted · cowardly · skittish · mousy · spineless · lily-livered · chicken-hearted · gutless
unadventuresomeadventurous
Inclined toward risky endeavors
daring · bold · adventuresome · audacious · venturesome
unadventuresomeadventurous
Inclined toward risky endeavors
exploratory · curious · pioneering · enterprising · free-spirited
unadventuresomeexciting
Arousing eager interest
dynamic · spontaneous · free-spirited · wild · lively
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