Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without event or incident; monotonous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without events; tame; monotonous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful.
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- adjective Without
events ;uneventful .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This period which then seemed so futile and eventless is now of great importance to me.
Homage to Catalonia 1938
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Gen. Ahmad Reza Radan, called the June 12 anniversary "eventless" and said just "a few" people had been arrested in disturbances in Tehran, according to Press TV, the state-run English-language news agency.
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I once wrote "eventless;" but, on looking, found it not.
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Newcastle Falcons continued their winning start to the Amlin Challenge Cup by beating Toulon 6-3 in an eventless affair in Pool Two.
Newcastle 6-3 Toulon | Amlin Challenge Cup match report 2011
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For my second reflection on this white-rimed night was that even an otter's prosaic, eventless passage along a dyke expressed a kind of triumph.
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To the degree that this device contributes to the broader popular perception that ‘literature’ is pretentious, faddish, vague, eventless, effortful, and suffocatingly interior, quotation marks may not be quite as tiny as they appear on the page.
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From an isolated, eventless existence, Jean Strouse extracts something that did not exist for centuries: a woman ' s interior life.
Indelible Portraits Of Women Stacy Schiff 2010
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To the degree that this device contributes to the broader popular perception that ‘literature’ is pretentious, faddish, vague, eventless, effortful, and suffocatingly interior, quotation marks may not be quite as tiny as they appear on the page.
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The 2012 primary season should be an eventless coronation for Barack Obama, akin to the nonexistent primary season of 1996, when Bill Clinton didn't even bother to formally declare his candidacy for a second term.
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His post-vice presidency, which ended with his death in January 1979, was mostly eventless.
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