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
But while this homecoming usually results in a Warriors victory (8-4 record in Charlotte), signature Curry flurries are usually replaced with excellent but unspectacular outings.
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Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
Entering Week 11, the Eagles have sported a solid but unspectacular offense under first-year coordinator Kevin Patullo.
—Jacob Camenker, USA Today, 16 Nov. 2025
Here are our grades for all three phases of Saturday’s game for KU (3-1), plus a player of the game ...
KU offense: B
The Jayhawks’ offense was good but unspectacular Saturday.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2025
Cleveland didn’t live up to the hype, the ratings were unspectacular and subsequently, they were busted back down to two national appearances the following year.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
Entering Week 11, the Eagles have sported a solid but unspectacular offense under first-year coordinator Kevin Patullo.
—Jacob Camenker, USA Today, 16 Nov. 2025
Here are our grades for all three phases of Saturday’s game for KU (3-1), plus a player of the game ...
KU offense: B
The Jayhawks’ offense was good but unspectacular Saturday.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2025
Cleveland didn’t live up to the hype, the ratings were unspectacular and subsequently, they were busted back down to two national appearances the following year.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspectacular
Adjective
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Hegseth’s harsh punishment is the culmination of a long, slow slide that began with a political disagreement.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
28 Feb. 2026
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The company didn’t break out Marni revenues, but Marni’s growth has been slower than that of other OTB labels, Diesel and Margiela, in recent years.—
Lucy Maguire,
Vogue,
27 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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This past offseason started hot and then slowly cooled into a generally unexciting paste.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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After his death, Pine settles into a requisite life in London as Alex Goodwin, a member of an unexciting intelligence unit called the Night Owls.—
Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Before then, Saturday is pleasant and uneventful by comparison, with partly sunny skies, mild winds and high temperatures in the upper 40s.—
Tammie Souza,
CBS News,
21 Feb. 2026
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Acceptance speeches were swift and uneventful.—
Dana Harris-Bridson,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The agency’s work is bureaucratic, technical, and undramatic—the institutional opposite of masked agents making violent arrests on the streets of American cities.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
17 Feb. 2026
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And for most people — and all children — the entirety of the day itself is boring, unremarkable and undramatic.—
Alex Ross Perry,
Vulture,
27 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Most American cities are organized on an unrelenting grid, an artifact of early European settlers’ simple and unimaginative approach to land surveying and real estate speculation.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2026
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Fennell has tossed all of that out, substituting her own unimaginative vision, plus a bunch of crappy dresses.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The rest of the potential free-agent group is an uninspiring mix of older players who have been there, done that — some who have done it in Cleveland already — and a few young players who have bounced around the league in recent years.—
Zac Jackson,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2026
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Lucky for me, even the most uninspiring of days is no match for my trusty all-purpose cleaning routine.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Unspectacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspectacular. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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