unadventurous

Other forms: unadventurously

If you like to stay safe and hate taking risks, you're unadventurous. You prefer to keep your feet firmly on the ground while your fearless friends try bungee jumping or skydiving.

Unadventurous people aren't interested in extreme sports or unfamiliar food or anything else that requires a degree of boldness and daring. You can also talk about unadventurous menus (featuring boring or familiar food) or unadventurous art at a gallery show (with pleasant, familiar works of art rather than innovative ones). Unadventurous adds the un- ("not") prefix to adventurous.

Definitions of unadventurous

1. adjective

   lacking in boldness
   synonyms:

   safe

   (of an undertaking) secure from risk

   timid

   showing fear and lack of confidence

   cautious

   showing careful forethought

   antonyms:

   adventurous

   willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises

   audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous

   disposed to venture or take risks

   sporting

   involving risk or willingness to take a risk

   swaggering, swashbuckling

   flamboyantly adventurous

   bold

   fearless and daring

   brave, courageous

   possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching

   incautious

   lacking in caution