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
What was supposed to be an uneventful first voyage transporting oil across the Persian Gulf has turned into a nightmare for a 28-year-old sailor from India, who has spent the past month stuck as his ship sits idled by the Iran war.
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Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
Porter made an unsuccessful bid for Senate in 2024, and Steyer and Swalwell launched uneventful presidential campaigns in 2020.
—Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
The weather looks pretty uneventful this week, apart from some rain chances Thursday.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 23 Mar. 2026
Afterward, host Conan O’Brien joked about what passed for drama at a largely uneventful evening at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
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Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
Porter made an unsuccessful bid for Senate in 2024, and Steyer and Swalwell launched uneventful presidential campaigns in 2020.
—Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
The weather looks pretty uneventful this week, apart from some rain chances Thursday.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 23 Mar. 2026
Afterward, host Conan O’Brien joked about what passed for drama at a largely uneventful evening at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneventful
Adjective
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An exhausting, preachy, frankly, boring and outdated version of his former self.—
Zach Dean OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
8 May 2026
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Let’s be honest here, and no disrespect to venerable family board games, but Monopoly is kind of boring.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
Adjective
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Traveling with a heavy bag can make any journey feel longer and more tiring.—
Destinee Scott,
Travel + Leisure,
7 May 2026
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Flimsy nozzles crack and leak, and heavy-duty nozzles get tiring to hold when your garden calls for more watering time than your hands can handle.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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But so far, progress has been slow — if not nonexistent.—
Audrey Pachuta,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
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Russia’s bigger and better-equipped army has been engaged in a slow, hard slog in Ukraine.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 May 2026
Adjective
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Most of them were spent on the third defensive pairing, and then the 22-year-old was scratched for Tyson Hinds late in the year as Quenneville favored the size of Hinds, who spent most of his season in the American Hockey League.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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Now imagine moving millions of items, each of them delicate, unique, priceless and old.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
13 May 2026
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According to this logic, a tetraploid crossed with a diploid watermelon would yield a triploid plant that would be sterile, and this is how seedless watermelons came to be.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
7 May 2026
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For the healthcare industry, the shortage of polypropylene and PVC limits the availability of syringes, IV bags and sterile packaging.—
Angelica Ang,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
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“Uneventful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uneventful. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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