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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eventful
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
day
▪ We prefer to spend the day with Fred Z - an unremarkable person living through a not particularly eventful day.
▪ This was to be an eventful day for the travellers.
▪ The morning celebrations were only the start of an eventful day for Napier University.
▪ It had been a long and eventful day.
▪ Scandal led to Majorie being stripped of her Miss World title after 104 eventful days.
▪ That was one of Albert Square's less eventful days.
▪ Chelsea had the better chances - and it was an eventful day for substitute David Lee.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an eventful meeting
▪ It has been an eventful day in politics -- two ministers have resigned and the Prime Minister has called an election.
▪ It has been an eventful week in politics, with the resignations of three Presidential advisers.
▪ She's led a very eventful life.
▪ The General's last two years were to prove highly eventful for him and the country.
▪ The poet Arthur Rimbaud led a short but extremely eventful life.
▪ When Marilyn Monroe died the press was anxious to uncover every aspect of her eventful career.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was free of his family and living a busy, eventful life.
▪ It had been the most eventful ten months of my twenty-three years.
▪ The morning celebrations were only the start of an eventful day for Napier University.
▪ The year 1963 was eventful in other ways, and the Great Train Robbery filled the newspapers and the media in August.
▪ This was one of the tournament's more eventful denouements.
▪ This was to be an eventful day for the travellers.
▪ We prefer to spend the day with Fred Z - an unremarkable person living through a not particularly eventful day.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eventful

Eventful \E*vent"ful\a. Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eventful

c.1600, from event + -ful. According to OED, it is in Shakespeare, once ("As You Like It"), and there is no record of it between then and Johnson's "Dictionary." Related: Eventfully; eventfulness. Eventless is attested from 1815.

Wiktionary
eventful

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

WordNet
eventful
  1. adj. full of events or incidents; "the most exhausting and eventful day of my life" [ant: uneventful]

  2. having important issues or results; "the year's only really consequential legislation"; "an eventful decision" [syn: consequential]

Wikipedia
Eventful

Eventful is an online calendar and events discovery service owned by CBS Corporation. The service allows users to search for and track upcoming entertainment events in their area (such as concerts, festivals, and film presentations) involving specific performers, indicate and share their intent to attend certain events, and indicate their "demand" for certain acts to appear in their region.

Eventful (song)

"Eventful" is a song by Japanese recording artist Ami Suzuki, from her fourth studio album Around The World, first album under the Avex Trax label. Written by Suzuki and composed by Tohru Watanabe, it was released as her second single under the Avex label on May 25, 2005.

Usage examples of "eventful".

He presently began asking certain questions about the grand climacteric, which eventful period of life he was fast approaching.

After an eventful career as a spin doctor to the powerful, rich and notorious, Quintin Jardine found that his talents were equally well fitted to the world of crime fiction.

Hunter Hawk, with an emotion of exaltation not entirely unbeholden to applejack, felt himself well equipped to face a new and eventful life.

In the long, eventful lives of Adams and Jefferson, it was an excursion of no importance to history.

Hunter Hawk, with an emotion of exaltation not entirely unbeholden to applejack, felt himself well equipped to face a new and eventful life.

Above all, he destroyed the self-enclosed monological form of his idea-prototypes and made them part of the great dialog of his novels, where they begin to live a new, eventful artistic life.

The Jugged Hare was less eventful, but more successful, than her first, and it was by no means to be her last.

It was in that eventful summer of 1950, during the off-year in his Mexican migrations, and before he plunged into his childhood memoir, that he published his first book written for a nonscientific audience.

Cranston had come in by one of the side corridors - a route which the police had searched in the belief that Socks Mallory had escaped by such an exit on the eventful evening when Tony Loretti had been slain.

He closeted himself with Ambler Appleyard and told him all the details of the eventful morning, and the manager listened in silence, taking everything in and making his own mental notes.

Gerald Buckley Radio Commentator, July 21, 1930 1930 would prove to be an eventful year for Detroit as well as for the nation.

The 19th of March came, and on that eventful day at four o'clock in the afternoon I was to ascend the pulpit.

The eight clerics were anxious now, somehow suspecting that this night would be eventful.

As this Theme is to contain discription I shall discribe the ball room of the club where the eventful party occurred.

His early life in Missouri, his rambling experiences in mining, steamboat piloting, and newspaper work, his first book-success with "Innocents Abroad," the long list of romances, stories, and sketches that followed, together with later eventful incidents, notable among which was the bestowal of his doctor's degree at Oxford three years ago -- all this is familiar to most Americans, and much of the story has been told discursively and oddly in Mark Twain's own purposely inconsecutive autobiographical papers.