undramatic

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Recent Examples of undramatic A lot of change is undramatic growth, transformation, or decay, or rather its timescale means the drama might not be perceptible to the impatient. Krista Stevens, Longreads, 24 Jan. 2024 If his family life was grounded and undramatic, his imaginative life was something like the opposite. Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024 Known for its delicate texture and undramatic look, this pie exudes old-school Southern class and charm. Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2023 Fukuyama looked to the future a little mournfully, seeing a gray, undramatic expanse—a tableau for technocrats. William MacAskill, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2022 See All Example Sentences for undramatic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undramatic
Adjective
  • It’s often said that what may seem relatively unspectacular on the runway can be better appreciated upon closer inspection.
    Julian Randall, Essence, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, each zone is punctuated by boss fights that are unspectacular and fail to present much challenge, especially when players can buy potions.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Vodka is all-too-often written off as an unexciting category of spirit.
    Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Producers love an unexciting telecast, but audiences are hungry for the kind of raw emotion and drama that populates the films that win the awards.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Life in the house was mostly uneventful — until one night in 1985, when a light fell from the ceiling and left their daughter, Shannon Smurl, with a gash on her forehead.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 9 May 2025
  • Flying does, however, remain the safest way to travel, with millions of people enjoying uneventful journeys every day.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But its most striking characteristic, now that the media is completely oversaturated with violent murders and courtroom dramas, is that De Lestrade’s work is so straightforward and unsensational.
    Vogue, Vogue, 8 June 2018
  • Robinson, whose credits include The L Word and True Blood, approaches the story in such a low-key, unsensational way that the trio's beyond-bohemian arrangement is barely eyebrow-raising.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Oct. 2017
Adjective
  • Higher education advisor Dan Ulin of Elite Student Coach in Los Angeles, California says downsides of unrewarding advanced degrees can extend far beyond the potential for long-term student loan debt and being thrust into an industry with limited (or no) growth potential.
    Robert Farrington, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The big problem is that social media is unrewarding.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • What remains consistent is the splendid topography of Frazier’s prose, and the sense throughout his work that there are, in fact, no uninteresting places, just uninteresting writers.
    The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
  • Image The stories of Twain’s children, who either died young or suffered innumerable medical and professional setbacks, are heart-rending and hardly uninteresting.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • But in the Sacramento region, most drinkers still associate chenin blanc with its sweet, unimaginative predecessors.
    Benjy Egel, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • There are narrative tropes, flat characters and unimaginative enemies everywhere.
    Christopher rd, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Salon Clutch Structured yet theatrical, Le Salon is Jacquemus’s answer to the evening clutch—pared back, but never boring.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 10 May 2025
  • Robinson stars as Craig Waterman, a regular suburban guy with a boring job, a charming florist wife who's losing interest in him (Kate Mara), and a teenage son (Jack Dylan Grazer) whose indifference borders on hostility.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 May 2025

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“Undramatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undramatic. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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