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UNEVENTFUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does uneventful mean?
• UNEVENTFUL (adjective)
The adjective UNEVENTFUL has 1 sense:
1. marked by no noteworthy or significant events
Familiarity information: UNEVENTFUL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by no noteworthy or significant events
Context example:
recovery was uneventful
Antonym:
eventful (full of events or incidents)
Context examples
It was performed with suitable quietness and uneventful safety.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I had lived a placid, uneventful, sedentary existence all my days—the life of a scholar and a recluse on an assured and comfortable income.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
While these internal revolutions were going on, her external life had been as busy and uneventful as usual, and if she sometimes looked serious or a little sad no one observed it but Professor Bhaer.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Our months of partnership had not been so uneventful as he had stated, for I find, on looking over my notes, that this period includes the case of the papers of ex-President Murillo, and also the shocking affair of the Dutch steamship Friesland, which so nearly cost us both our lives.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Such were Elizabeth Elliot's sentiments and sensations; such the cares to alloy, the agitations to vary, the sameness and the elegance, the prosperity and the nothingness of her scene of life; such the feelings to give interest to a long, uneventful residence in one country circle, to fill the vacancies which there were no habits of utility abroad, no talents or accomplishments for home, to occupy.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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