Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unadventurous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English

Syllables: un-ad-ven-tur-ous
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not adventurous

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English adventurous English unadventurous From un- + adventurous.

Inflected Forms

more unadventurous (comparative) most unadventurous (superlative)

Derived Forms

unadventurously unadventurousness

Questions

What does unadventurous mean?: Not adventurous
Where does unadventurous come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English adventurous English unadventurous From un- + adventurous.

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