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uneventful

adjective

Definition of uneventfulnext
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 This was supposed to be a quiet, uneventful summer in Green Bay — where most starting jobs seemed settled a month ago. — Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Strait of Hormuz crossings remained uneventful over the past week as traffic remains subdued amid little progress in negotiations to reopen the vital oil conduit. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 17 Aug. 2026 Instead, there will be only a flash of white light, originating nowhere in particular, beaming out into the uneventful void. — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026 Following two uneventful innings, Tidwell unraveled in the top of the fifth. — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for uneventful
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneventful
  1. boring
  2. slow
  3. tiring
  4. old
  5. sterile
Adjective
  • As a matter of fact, this will probably be one of the more boring editions of this column.
    — Gary Davenport, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Alice’s viewpoint is boring, and anyone who agonizes about it forever will never get to the interesting parts.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of boring
Adjective
  • Complex carbs with fiber slow digestion and sugar absorption, while protein and fat further delay digestion, helping to stabilize blood sugar.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Longer messages mean slower communication, so people who study error-correcting codes devise more elaborate schemes to minimize the redundancy in the transmissions while maximizing the number of errors that can be corrected.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of slow
Adjective
  • Swatting at wasps is a bad idea, and simply running from them gets tiring.
    — Nick Perry, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Smith, too, struggled to escape the clutches of a Burnley defence that saw Hjalmar Ekdal replace the tiring Igor midway through the second half.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of tiring
Adjective
  • Cora, 5, and Dawson, 3, died at the scene, but their youngest, 8-month-old Callan, was still alive when first responders arrived.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Also on the agenda is Russia's more than four-year-old war in Ukraine.
    — Antoni Slodkowski Reuters, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of old
Adjective
  • Decades ago, the creation and release of sterile flies to interrupt the pest’s breeding cycle was key to driving it out.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Principal Andrew Kearl said work went into making sure the school, which has nearly 1,400 students, felt warm rather than sterile, the way new buildings sometimes can.
    — Jonaki Mehta, NPR, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of sterile

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“Uneventful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uneventful. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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