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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uneventful
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Our trip up to New England was uneventful.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But if the mission is uneventful, the biggest danger is that we might let down our guard, get complacent.
▪ But most nights it was quiet and uneventful.
▪ It tends to be uneventful, its often prolonged sequence of steps suggesting enforcement by attrition.
▪ Otherwise, the Grammy telecast was smooth and uneventful, awkward at times.
▪ Shortly before this, however, fate took a hand in the so far uneventful war of Second Lieutenant Stirling.
▪ The balance of the day was uneventful.
▪ The journey had not been entirely uneventful, I discovered later.
▪ We take an uneventful trip to the lake.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uneventful

1800, from un- (1) "not" + eventful. Related: Uneventfully.

Wiktionary
uneventful

a. monotonous; lacking significant or noteworthy events

WordNet
uneventful

adj. marked by no noteworthy or significant events; "an uneventful life"; "the voyage was pleasant and uneventful"; "recovery was uneventful" [ant: eventful]

Usage examples of "uneventful".

Her postoperative course had been entirely uneventful, and she had already been started on clear fluids by mouth.

November the Essex, after an uneventful voyage, anchored at Porto Praya, in the Cape Verdes, where she remained five days.

You will no doubt pass an uneventful though possibly somewhat boring day listening to Nita tell you how she won the bobsled race from Ghent to Aix.

Rolls Eaglewood wore purple and white and remained unexcitingly in mid-field throughout, the uneventful contest being won by the hot favourite, pulling up.

Colonel Raden, I thank you for having given me the greatest moment of my not uneventful life.

Scientists would soon find themselves adrift in a bewildering realm of particles and antiparticles, where things pop in and out of existence in spans of time that make nanoseconds look plodding and uneventful, where everything is strange.

It had been an uneventful journey for the young king and his party of Chargers, except for a minor detour forced by the swelling river Kryss.

In the next column was an announcement of the death of Lord Pastmaster and a brief survey of his uneventful life.

This place could support its complement of survivalists for years, but after a few uneventful months morale would begin to deteriorate.

The rest of the year went by with no more major upsets or dramas and was fairly uneventful until Saturday, June the first at 4:16 in the afternoon, when something major did happen.

And might I say how your telephonic confabulation brightens up and cheers our otherwise dreary and uneventful day?

The rest of the journey was uneventful until, just a short distance from the towering bulk of the Orchid House, they passed the dirty grey lights of a backway greasy spoon.

It had been an uneventful afternoon, except for the usual run of the Beaverton Fire Rescue truck to old Mrs.

Not uneventful in the sense of nothing happening and it being an easy trek, but rather in the sense of it being a seemingly unending slog of relentless tedium, with nothing to break up the monotony and put marker points or breathing spaces in the day.

And so the spokesman watched diligently and patiently throughout the first long, uneventful day of the siege, noting the boundaries that the goblin tribes staked out as their own, and the order of hierarchy that determined the distance of each group from the center spot of Cryshal-Tirith.