Usually means: Lacking initiative, ambition, or creativity.
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  1. unenterprising: Merriam-Webster
  2. unenterprising: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unenterprising: Collins English Dictionary
  4. unenterprising: Vocabulary.com
  5. unenterprising: Wordnik
  6. unenterprising: Wiktionary
  7. unenterprising: Dictionary.com
  8. unenterprising: Rhymezone
  9. unenterprising: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. unenterprising: FreeDictionary.org
  11. unenterprising: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. unenterprising: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Lacking the property of being enterprising.

Similar:
unenergetic, nonenterprising, slowgoing, uncontriving, unventurous, unentrepreneurial, unindustrious, nonambitious, inadventurous, unsedulous, more...

Opposite:
enterprising, ambitious, aggressive, audacious, bold

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Similar:
unenergetic, nonenterprising, slowgoing, uncontriving, unventurous, unentrepreneurial, unindustrious, nonambitious, inadventurous, unsedulous, more...

Opposite:
enterprising, ambitious, aggressive, audacious, bold



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