UNADVENTUROUS Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

unadventurous

adjective

Definition of unadventurous

as in unassertive

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Recent Examples of unadventurous Mirabella had famously repainted former editor Diana Vreeland’s red office a shade of beige, which became a metaphor for her reputation as being too unadventurous. — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 28 June 2025 The team became a kind of lazy shorthand for tastefully unadventurous filmmaking, and unfairly so. — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025 Alas, while the comics themselves have prominence on-screen in their static form, the doc remains a proficient, engaging portrait, but an unadventurous one. — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 25 Feb. 2025 My navy blazer, white shirt and khakis would otherwise have felt rather staid and unadventurous (at least for me), but the texture, color, and patina of my polo belt felt apropos. — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unadventurous

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Adjective

This film, so seemingly unassertive, apparently rambling and plotless, has a devastating impact and aftershock.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
Avoiding is unassertive and uncooperative, where an individual tends to give up on their own needs and acquiesce to the desires of others by disengaging from the situation altogether.

— Ellen Choi, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025

Definition of unassertive

Adjective

They were described by family members and neighbors as antisocial and chronically online.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Yet the rules of the real world don’t always apply virtually, and the behavior of the virtual world, in real life, is typically weird and antisocial.

— Longreads, Longreads, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of antisocial

Adjective

Hospitality fared well in Deputy’s study, making up half of the 10 happiest job sectors, despite the sector’s reputation for high stress, unsociable hours, and low pay.

— Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2025
To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.

— Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024

Definition of unsociable

Adjective

The circumstances are objectively potent — but Udofia smothers them in such a barrage of cutesiness and self-conscious signalling that a wall rises between us and the play.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
Amid so much belabored meanness, meager appeals to conscience scan more like self-conscious obligation, easily subsumed by impotence.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026

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