Antonyms for enterprising
ˈɛn tərˌpraɪ zɪŋen·ter·pris·ing

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1. enterprising

   Antonyms:
   inactive, timid, inadventurous, cautious

   Synonyms:
   active, bold, daring, adventurous, speculative, dashing, venturesome

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1. enterprisingadjective

   marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects

   "an enterprising foreign policy"; "an enterprising young man likely to go far"

   Antonyms:
   slowgoing, unenergetic, unenterprising, nonenterprising

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1. enterprisingadjective

   Synonyms:
   active, stirring, energetic, venturesome

How to use enterprising in a sentence?

1. James Fenimore Cooper:

   A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

2. Henry David Thoreau:

   If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

3. President Trump:

   I want to ask you, with my heart in my hand, that every time you hear an aggressive or denigrating expression, remember that there, in Mexico, you are the heroes of the country, the brave, the enterprising, the generous, those who dared to cross the border to give their family a better future.

4. Ellen Pawlikowski:

   We’re taking a more enterprising look at understanding and exploring the capabilities we are going to need in the future, it is not just looking at a next-generation fighter but looking at these issues in the context of leveraging all of the capabilities that can accomplish that.

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