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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



... amazed me by the results of one generation's activity. Occasionally, when I have been in places of some ten thousand inhabitants where the telephone is in general use, I have felt somewhat ashamed of our own unenterprising towns, many of which, of fifty thousand inhabitants and more, ...
— The Contemporary Review, January 1883 - Vol 43, No. 1 • Various

... adapt themselves to their surroundings and fit themselves to survive; that all Nature has at heart is adaptability of individuals to their surroundings and their fitness to survive. The lowly amoeba can perform these unenterprising functions more fitly than himself. And the Artist would never be satisfied with so mean and meagre an ambition as merely to adapt himself to his surroundings and fit himself to survive. If he saw evidence of no higher expectation than that in the workings of Nature, his heart would certainly ...
— The Heart of Nature - or, The Quest for Natural Beauty • Francis Younghusband



Words linked to "Unenterprising" :   ambitionless, unadventurous, unambitious, unenergetic, enterprising, slowgoing



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