as in slow
not spectacular or special
The team has had an unspectacular season. The company's stock has shown consistent if unspectacular growth.
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Recent Examples of unspectacular
So far this year, employers have added a solid but unspectacular 124,000 jobs a month, down from an average 168,000 last year.
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Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
Aside from enduring a rare trophy-less season—in which some of its dominant façade has eroded—Real is, quite bluntly, unspectacular.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Why would a team that is trying to squeeze one more run out of the LeBron James/Anthony Davis era move him (along with other assets) to acquire two seemingly unspectacular role players?
—Mat Issa, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
The numbers suggest Alonso has had a solid yet unspectacular season.
—Will Sammon, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
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Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
Aside from enduring a rare trophy-less season—in which some of its dominant façade has eroded—Real is, quite bluntly, unspectacular.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Why would a team that is trying to squeeze one more run out of the LeBron James/Anthony Davis era move him (along with other assets) to acquire two seemingly unspectacular role players?
—Mat Issa, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
The numbers suggest Alonso has had a solid yet unspectacular season.
—Will Sammon, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspectacular
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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
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He was distracted by a looming snowstorm when talked to the founder, James Park, and thought that Park was flat and unexciting.—
Elizabeth MacBride,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Cracker Barrel proudly announced a new, streamlined, unexciting logo, explained it poorly, defended it clumsily, and failed to recognize that anything remotely resembling a jab at white people, Southern heritage or tradition these days will be attacked as woke.—
Neal Rubin,
Freep.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In terms of solar activity, the first half of August was uneventful, with very few sunspots.—
Ryan French,
Space.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The only positive to take away from a chilly, uneventful night at Coors Field was the Dodgers losing their fourth game in a row on a walk-off to the pesty Orioles.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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With a choir and orchestra arranged by Axel Stordahl, the strings swell to heart-leaping proportions, while Sinatra keeps things sedate and sanguine with an undramatic vocal, which drips with a warm camaraderie.—
Emma Madden,
Vulture,
23 Dec. 2024
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This gave me the naive assumption that an uneventful gestation would be followed by an equally undramatic delivery.—
Brigid Washington,
Bon Appétit,
24 June 2024
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An unimaginative offseason and years of poor drafting left had them no choice.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
27 Aug. 2025
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The world of streetwear, expensive sneakers and sweatshirts is an unimaginative and dreary place.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
19 May 2025
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Getty Images After finishing last year with an uninspiring 36-46 record, the Phoenix Suns traded Kevin Durant and agreed to a buyout with Bradley Beal.—
Mat Issa,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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And if the uninspiring, low-effort play continues into New York’s next game — a road WNBA Finals rematch against the Minnesota Lynx — the scoreboard will look much worse.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
29 July 2025
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“Unspectacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspectacular. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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