as in unassertive
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Recent Examples of unadventurous
Our children are unadventurous eaters.
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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
Sony hit its marks, delivering graphically impressive but otherwise unadventurous installments in their major series, and Nintendo shipped a suite of characteristically springy platformers and sports games.
—Clayton Purdom, Chron, 8 Dec. 2022
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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
Sony hit its marks, delivering graphically impressive but otherwise unadventurous installments in their major series, and Nintendo shipped a suite of characteristically springy platformers and sports games.
—Clayton Purdom, Chron, 8 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unadventurous
Adjective
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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
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Accommodating, which is unassertive and cooperative, prioritizes the needs and preferences of others over one’s own in order to maintain harmony.—
Ellen Choi,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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First thing's first: Sweating is a completely normal bodily function and not something to be embarrassed about, health experts say.—
Hannah Yasharoff,
USA Today,
6 Apr. 2025
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Are those people embarrassed not to have read Lispector?—
New York Times,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Playing Seok required learning more about antisocial behavior and yet the character is more than a textbook example of a disorder.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield’s antisocial tendencies will find positive expression in a tenderness for those whom polite society brutalizes or neglects.—
Anahid Nersessian,
The New Yorker,
5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But when the homework clause was revealed, the enormous unsocial media fan was out there and the manure hit it with great force.—
Nick CanepaColumnist,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 July 2022
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The choice of verbs on social media seems, to Miss Manners, to demonstrate a decidedly unsocial intent.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
6 Jan. 2022
Adjective
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Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.—
Bay Area News Group,
The Mercury News,
2 June 2024
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To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.—
Erika Page,
The Christian Science Monitor,
2 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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If there was a powerful strain of nostalgia in this self-conscious quaintness, that only enhanced the appeal.—
Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Laurie is hurt and self-conscious that Valentin chose the glamorous Jaclyn, while Jaclyn’s desire to party and hook up seems to have been driven by hurt over being ignored by her much-younger husband, Harrison, and wanting to be seen as young and hot.—
Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Unadventurous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unadventurous. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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