as in boring
having nothing exciting, interesting, or unusual happening; not eventful
an uneventful vacation/day/life The flight home was uneventful.
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Recent Examples of uneventful
My days are long, busy and usually uneventful.
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Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Bennett and William had a relatively uneventful NICU stay.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The couple had no idea an otherwise uneventful errand would land them a $150,000 prize, officials said.
—Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
So, no, spending their way out of the play-in likely won’t be a Heat option next summer, with NBA free agency 2026 likely to be as uneventful for the Heat as NBA free agency 2025.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
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Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Bennett and William had a relatively uneventful NICU stay.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The couple had no idea an otherwise uneventful errand would land them a $150,000 prize, officials said.
—Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
So, no, spending their way out of the play-in likely won’t be a Heat option next summer, with NBA free agency 2026 likely to be as uneventful for the Heat as NBA free agency 2025.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneventful
Adjective
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Farming takes so long and is so boring, some of us said.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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The Clark County Fire Department said that tunnel boring operations had been temporarily halted at the site pending an ongoing accident investigation.—
Jessica Mathews,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Without a strict hierarchy or single decision-maker, our process can sometimes be slow, messy, or even tiring.—
Caterina De Biasio,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
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The film is a mess, opaque in its argument and tiring in its effortful weirdness, and yet in its best moments has a hypnotic pull.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Biden, who ended his bid for a second White House term 107 days before last year's election, has been relatively slow to move on presidential library planning compared with most of his recent predecessors.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 Sep. 2025
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With Parkinson’s, doctors implant electrodes in the brain that produce electrical impulses to disrupt the abnormal signals that cause tremors, stiffness and slow movement.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Smith replied that private schools must submit renewal packets every year before they are approved to continue participation in the accounts program, and that the agency compares the new tuition rates against the older rates.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Sep. 2025
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The reversal marks just one example of how Trump is rewriting Republicans’ decades-old playbook on countering Beijing’s influence in the United States and abroad.—
Christian Datoc,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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The sterile cockpit rule prohibits pilots from engaging in conversations unrelated to operating the aircraft when flying below 10,000 feet.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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These aren’t sterile operations run by committees.—
Joel Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Uneventful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uneventful. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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