Eventful

Definitions: Eventful

Eventful

Adjective

1. Full of events or incidents; "the most exhausting and eventful day of my life".

2. Having important issues or results; "the year's only really consequential legislation"; "an eventful decision".

Date "eventful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references)

Synonym: Eventful

Synonym: consequential (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: uneventful (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Activity	Astir, stirring; agoing, afoot; on foot; in full swing; eventful; on the alert; (vigilant).
Eventuality	Eventful, stirring, bustling, full of incident; memorable, momentous, signal.
Importance	Adjective: important; of importance; Noun: momentous, material; to the point; not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at; egregious; weighty; (influential); of note; (repute); notable, prominent, salient, signal; memorable, remarkable; unforgettable; worthy of remark, worthy of notice; never to be forgotten; stirring, eventful.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Eventful

English words defined with "eventful": consequential ♦ odyssey. (references)

Specialty definitions using "eventful": Adam and Eve, Apparel ♦ Ludgate ♦ Mast ♦ Porter ♦ Traveling ♦ Zinc. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	So have a Merry Christmas, a Happy Chanukah, a Krazy Kwanzaa, a Tip Top Tet, and a solemn, eventful Ramadan. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)
Movie/TV Titles	An Eventful Evening (1916)
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Domain	Title
Books	EVEntful Years [LARGE PRINT] (reference) Great Mysteries of the 20th Century (The Eventful 20th Century) (reference) Long John Silver: The True and Eventful History of My Life of Liberty and Adventure As a Gentleman of Fortune & Enemy to Mankind (reference) Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier : By a Sergeant in the Ninety-Fourth Scots Brigade (reference) The Way We Lived (The Eventful 20th Century) (reference) (more book examples)
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	Freedom's immortal triumph! Finale of the Jeff Davis Die-nasty." Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Nigeria	Before the colonial period, the area which comprises modern Nigeria had an eventful history. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	Today marks the beginning not only of a new administration, but of a period that will be eventful, perhaps decisive, for us and for the world.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Eventful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eventful" is used about 108 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	108	31,306

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "eventful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		plot ngjarje, i rëndësishëm (capital, consequential, earnest, epoch making, front page, grave, important, imported, impressive, inflated, jack in office, mattery, mouth-filling, notable, noteworthy, responsible, serious, sidy, significant, substantial, tidy). (various references)

Arabic		‏حافل بالاحداث, ‏زاخر بالأحداث, ‏خطير (acute, critical, dangerous, grave, grievous, hazardous, heavy, important, irresistible, momentous, redoubtable, risky, risque, serious, severe, significant, ticklish, unsafe, weighty). (various references)

Bulgarian		съдбовен (fateful), пълен със събития, паметен (memorable, memorial, notable), динамичен (dynamic, high pressure). (various references)

Chinese		充忙, 多事 (meddlesome). (various references)

Czech		rušný (bustling, busy, hectic), pohnutý (chequered, emotional, unhappy), památný (memorable). (various references)

Farsi		پرحادثه , کذاءی (Socalled). (various references)

Finnish		monivaiheinen, monityydyttymättömät, monituinen. (various references)

French		plein d'incidents, mouvementé, fertile en événement. (various references)

German		ereignisreich (eventfull, eventfully). (various references)

Hebrew		רב מאורעות. (various references)

Hungarian		eseménydús (action-packed). (various references)

Indonesian		penuh kejadian. (various references)

Italian		emozionante (emotional, engrossing, exciting, fascinating, moving, thrilling), pieno di avvenimenti, pieno d'eventi, movimentato (animated, busy, lively). (various references)

Korean		다사다단한. (various references)

Manx		mooar-chooishagh (epoch-making, important). (various references)

Norwegian		begivenhetsrik. (various references)

Pig Latin		eventfulay

Portuguese		cheio de acontecimentos, acontecimentos imprevisíveis. (various references)

Romanian		bogat în evenimente. (various references)

Russian		богатый событиями, полный событий (red blooded). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pun događaja. (various references)

Spanish		memorable (memorable, notable), lleno de incidentes. (various references)

Swedish		händelserik. (various references)

Thai		เต็มไป�"้วยเหตุการ�"์ที่สำคัญ, น่าสนใจและน่าตื่นเต้น. (various references)

Turkish		olaylı (crowded, episodic, stirring), maceralı, ciddi (austere, businesslike, capital, critical, demure, devout, earnest, forbidding, grave, gut, important, momentous, mortally, sedate, serious, sober, sober minded, solemn, staid, starched, unsmiling), önemli (big, big time, capital, consequential, considerable, emphatic, emphatical, fateful, grand, grave, great, gut, healthy, heavy, high, historic, historical, important, leading, major, momentous, noteworthy, of importance, of note, of weight, prominent, respectable, serious, significant, smart, solemn, star, substantial, top-line, urgent, weighty, worthy). (various references)

Ukranian		багатий на події (chanceful). (various references)

Vietnamese		có nhiều sự kiện quan trọng có kết quả quan trọng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "eventful": eventfully, eventfulness, eventfulnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "eventful": uneventful. (additional references)
	Words containing "eventful": uneventfully, uneventfulness, uneventfulnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Eventful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Evantius, eventu, eventum. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "eventful" (pronounced ive"ntful or ēve"ntful)
7	-v e" n t f u l	uneventful.
6	-e" n t f u l	resentful.
4	-t f u l	artful, boastful, deceitful, delightful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doubtful, fateful, fistful, fitful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, grateful, hateful, hurtful, insightful, lustful, mistrustful, neglectful, regretful, respectful, restful, rightful, spiteful, tactful, tasteful, thoughtful, ungrateful, wasteful, wistful, zestful.
3	-f u l	apocryphal, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, disdainful, disgraceful, doleful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fearful, flavorful, forceful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, harmful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mournful, muffle, needful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, remorseful, reshuffle, resourceful, riffle, rifle, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tearful, thankful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, unfaithful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, watchful, willful, wishful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful.
8	ē v e" n t f u l	uneventful.
6	-e" n t f u l	resentful.
4	-t f u l	artful, boastful, deceitful, delightful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doubtful, fateful, fistful, fitful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, grateful, hateful, hurtful, insightful, lustful, mistrustful, neglectful, regretful, respectful, restful, rightful, spiteful, tactful, tasteful, thoughtful, ungrateful, wasteful, wistful, zestful.
3	-f u l	apocryphal, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, disdainful, disgraceful, doleful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fearful, flavorful, forceful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, harmful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mournful, muffle, needful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, remorseful, reshuffle, resourceful, riffle, rifle, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tearful, thankful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, unfaithful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, watchful, willful, wishful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-f-l-n-t-u-v"
	-1 letter: teenful.
	-2 letters: eluent, fluent, unfelt, venule.
	-3 letters: elute, event, fleet, flute, lunet, unlet, venue.
	-4 letters: even, feel, feet, felt, fete, flee, flue, fuel, leet, left, lent, lune, lunt, lute, neve, teel, teen, tele, tule, tune, vent.
	-5 letters: eel, eft, elf, eve, fee, fen, fet, feu, flu, fun, lee, let, leu, lev, luv, nee, net, nut.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-f-l-n-t-u-v"
	+2 letters: eventfully, interfluve, uneventful.
	+3 letters: interfluves.
	+4 letters: eventfulness, uneventfully, unreflective.
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