Meanings
adjectiveinadventurous (comparative more inadventurous, superlative most inadventurous)
comparative more inadventurous · superlative most inadventurous
- Not adventurous.
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.
1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Italic*n̥-
- Latinin-
- Middle Englishin-
- Englishin-
- Englishadventurous
- Englishinadventurous
From in- + adventurous.
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APA
inadventurous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inadventurous
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“inadventurous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inadventurous. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inadventurous,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inadventurous.
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