EVENTFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eventful mean? 

• EVENTFUL (adjective)
  The adjective EVENTFUL has 2 senses:

1. full of events or incidents

2. having important issues or results

  Familiarity information: EVENTFUL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVENTFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Full of events or incidents

Context example:

the most exhausting and eventful day of my life

Similar:

lively (filled with events or activity)

Antonym:

uneventful (marked by no noteworthy or significant events)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having important issues or results

Synonyms:

consequential; eventful

Context example:

an eventful decision

Similar:

important; of import (of great significance or value)

 Context examples 

Early to bed to-night, Watson, for I foresee that to-morrow may be an eventful day.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Looking ahead, watch February 23, likely an eventful day and, I feel, a notable day for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This was to be an eventful day for the travelers.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Nephew, I have had an eventful life, but I feel as if the very strangest scene of it were waiting for me among those trees.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This was the state of matters, on the afternoon of, what I may be excused for calling, that eventful and important Friday.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Can I do it? asked Beth, a few weeks after that eventful call of his.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And now I turn to the last supreme eventful moment of our adventure.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could not help being struck by the strange coincidences that had taken place during this eventful night; but, knowing that I had been conversing with several persons in the island I had inhabited about the time that the body had been found, I was perfectly tranquil as to the consequences of the affair.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)