unventurousadj.
(un- prefix1 1.)
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > caution > [adjective] > not adventurous or enterprising
unadventurous1671
unattempting1730
inexperimenting1746
unenterprising1777
unadventuring1824
safe1830
stick-in-the-mud1832
inadventurous1853
inventurous1863
unventurous1865
1865 J. R. Lowell Ode at Harvard Commem. 14 The common grave Of the unventurous throng.
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adj.1865- to get, , lose flesh
- to get, come, etc, unstuck
- to get, get oneself in, lose flesh
- to get, give, have fair law
- to get, give, have fair law of
- to get, give, have law
- to get, give, have law of
- to get, give, have, obtain, take a licence
- to get, give, have, obtain, take licence
- to get, have or give a skrik
- to get, have or give someone a skrik
- to get, have, meet with one's deserts
- to get, have, or take a cold
- to get, have, or take a right sow by the ear
- to get, have, or take a wrong sow by the ear
- to get, have, or take the right sow by the ear
- to get, have, or take the wrong sow by the ear
- to get, have, possess the dead-wood
- to get, have, possess the deadwood
- to get, have, take scathe
- to get, have, tie a bun on
- to get, take, or have a rise out of
- to getupon
- to gibbet into
- to gie it laldy