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Unenterprising

adjective
1.
Lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome.  Synonym: nonenterprising.





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"Unenterprising" Quotes from Famous Books



... present moment there exist some thousands of respectable, neatly-dressed, mechanical, unenterprising young men, employed at modest salaries by various banks, corporations, stores, shops, and business firms. They are put to work when young, and they stay put. They are mussels. Each has his special place on the rock, and remains glued to ...
— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
 
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... on one's guard &c. (watchful) 459; cavendo tutus[Lat]; in medio tutissimus[Lat]; vigilant. careful, heedful; cautelous|, stealthy, chary, shy of, circumspect, prudent, discreet, politic; sure-footed &c. (skillful) 698. unenterprising, unadventurous, cool, steady, self-possessed; overcautious. Adv. cautiously &c. adj. Int. have a care! Phr. timeo Danaos [Lat][Vergil]; festina lente[Lat]. ante victoriam ne canas triumphum [Lat: don't sing out victory before the ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
 
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... class whose exertions had been stimulated by necessity. This is a very common course of things, even in the present state of the Union; but it was peculiarly the fortunes of the two extremes of society, in the peaceful and unenterprising colonies of ...
— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper
 
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... those who claimed acquaintance with the intent of Bannadonna be thus far correct, no unenterprising spirit could have been his. But they stopped not here; intimating that though, indeed, his design had, in the first place, been prompted by the sight of the watchman, and confined to the devising of a subtle substitute for him: yet, as is not seldom the case with projectors, by ...
— The Piazza Tales • Herman Melville
 
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Words linked to "Unenterprising" :   ambitionless, nonenterprising, unambitious, unenergetic, enterprising, slowgoing, unadventurous



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