nonenterprising

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nonenterprising - lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome

unenterprising

unadventurous - lacking in boldness

ambitionless, unambitious - having little desire for success or achievement

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For example, structured vocational interest inventories describe, and thus predict, successful physical scientists and engineers as individualistic, realistic, investigative, nonsocial, nonartistic and nonenterprising (LeBold et al., 1983).

What attracts high-achieving, socioeconomically disadvantaged students to the physical sciences and engineering?

Second, it falsely assumes that states are static, moribund, and nonenterprising and that, similar to the "underdog" in a giant global judo match, NSAs can easily leverage a state's weight against the government.