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Etymology

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From in- +‎ adventurous.

Adjective

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inadventurous (comparative more inadventurous, superlative most inadventurous)

  1. Not adventurous.
    • 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
      Inadventurous, unstirred by impulses of practical ambition, I was capable of sitting twenty years teaching infants the hornbook, turning silk dresses and making children's frocks.