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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Full of events.
  • adjective Important; momentous.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of events or incidents; attended or characterized by important or striking occurrences: as, an eventful reign; an eventful journey.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of, or rich in, events or incidents

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to high levels of activity; having many memorable events.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having important issues or results
  • adjective full of events or incidents

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From event +‎ -ful.

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Examples

  • After what he describes as "eventful" races in 2007 and 2009 at the Nurburgring Hamilton knows it is pointless attempting to second guess how he might fare this weekend.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • It gives us some delineations of bygone manners and social changes, glimpses of many more or less notable persons, and above all the record of a life which, without being in the usual sense of these terms eventful or distinguished, stands forth as one in a great degree self-determined and bearing a strong impress of individuality.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

  • He saw Magdaléna alone for a moment before the others came downstairs, and his delight at meeting her again was so boyish that she could hardly have recalled his eventful forty years had she tried.

    The Californians Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • "Full blast," the Corporal's own expression, exactly described the setting out of the cockle-shell; that is, the eventful Monday morning when the doors of the first free kindergarten west of the Rockies threw open its doors.

    The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • When it was over, Woods called his eventful week and a day at Augusta "a good experience."

    NYT > Home Page By BILL PENNINGTON 2010

  • Chat: Walliams and Carr couldn't help but laugh as the comedian recalled his eventful stag night

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • This summer was definitely what I would call eventful and I won't go into detailing everything I did - with a few exceptions though, so expect some follow up blog posts.

    Bulix.org » Life snippets Maxime Petazzoni 2010

  • The clean installation of Windows 7 Beta was pretty much un-eventful, which is not really surprising.

    MSDN Blogs 2009

  • The clean installation of Windows 7 Beta was pretty much un-eventful, which is not really surprising.

    MSDN Blogs 2009

  • The clean installation of Windows 7 Beta was pretty much un-eventful, which is not really surprising.

    MSDN Blogs 2009

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