UNEVENTFUL Synonyms: 136 Similar and Opposite Words

uneventful

adjective

Definition of uneventful

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 The flight, which was piloted by Captain Alfred Haynes and First Officer William Records, had a smooth takeoff and uneventful first hour of the journey. — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026 After an uneventful first inning, Philadelphia opened the scoring with a four-single rally in the second inning. — Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for uneventful

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Adjective

Let’s start with tracking Savu, where, because of the tiny tribes, the most obvious and boring thing ends up happening.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
Smith is betting that in a market where every phone looks the same, the bigger risk is being boring.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of boring

Adjective

Tommy Gemmell, advanced from left-back, provided the equaliser on 63 minutes and with Inter tiring and Celtic still pushing, Chalmers scored the famous winner with six minutes left.

— Michael Walker, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
But after a while, the lack of grounding gets tiring, as various supernatural shenanigans appear to be determined more by plot convenience than anything else.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of tiring

Adjective

An album-length EP by the 20-year-old producer is a dizzying and boundless collage of collages, using free-jazz logic and digital overload to chart new emotional terrain.

— Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
Rodrigo Valentim, a 51-year-old businessman and supporter of Bolsonaro, said another Lula government would harm the economy.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of old

Adjective

The government has a longstanding program to breed sterile male flies and drop swarms of them from planes to mate with wild females, causing the flies to die out.

— Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
The 46-year-old was ushered into a sterile room for her appointment, her phone lit up with a text.

— Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026

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