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Definition: Uneventful |
UneventfulAdjective1. Marked by no noteworthy or significant events; "an uneventful life"; "the voyage was pleasant and uneventful"; "recovery was uneventful". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "uneventful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1803. (references) |
| Antonym: eventful (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unimportance | Subordinate; (inferior); mediocre; (average); passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common; ordinary; (habitual); inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Uneventful |
| English words defined with "uneventful": Eventless ♦ uneventfully. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "uneventful": Obedience ♦ SIMON. (references) |
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Civil Liberties | Kyrgyz Republic | Despite the sizeable police presence, the small demonstrations that did take place were peaceful and uneventful, and the authorities did not detain, arrest, or jail any demonstrators. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Uneventful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.17% of the time. "Uneventful" is used about 120 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) | 99.17% | 119 | 29,501 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.83% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 120 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "uneventful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pa trazira, i qetë (at ease, balanced, calm, canny, collected, comfortable, comfy, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, easeful, equable, even, even-minded, halcyon, laid back, level, level headed, mild, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, retired, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, settled, silent, smooth, sober-blooded, stationary, still, stilly, tranquil, unconcern, unconcerned, unruffled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هادئ (calm, cloistered, composed, cool, dispassionate, easygoing, even, impassive, imperturbable, laid back, peaceable, peaceful, piping, placid, possessed, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, self possessed, serene, sober, steady, still, tranquil, undisturbed, unflappable, unmoved, unruffled, windless), خالي من الأ حداث. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спокоен (arcadian, calm, clear, collected, contented, cool, dreamy, easeful, easy, equable, equal, even tempered, even-minded, halcyon, immovable, impassive, imperturbable, leisurely, level, nerveless, peaceful, philosophical, piping, placid, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, self possessed, self-collected, settled, smooth, soft, staid, steady, steady-going, still, stirless, unalarmed, unbuttoned, unconcerned, undisturbed, unflappable, unmolested, unruffled, untroubled), тих (airless, breathless, calm, canny, dreamy, halcyon, low, noiseless, peaceful, placid, quiet, restful, silent, sleepy, slow, small, soft, stealthy, still, stilly, tearless, tranquil, under), безметежен, без особени събития. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | klidný (calm, collected, composed, cool, easy, halcyon, impassive, imperturbable, laid back, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, silent, smooth, sober, still, temperate, tranquil, unmoved, unperturbed), jednotvárný (drab, dull, featureless, humdrum, jejune, monotonous, trivial, uniform, unrelieved). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | بی حادثه , بدون رویدادمهم . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tapaukseton. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tranquille (untroubled), sans incidents, sans histoires, ordinaire (unexciting), calme (unconcern, unflappable, unmoved). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ereignislos (unadventurous, uneventfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χωρίσ σπουδαία γεγονότα, ήσυχοσ (calm, placid, quiescent, quiet, sedate, still, tranquil, windless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משעמם (boring, drab, dry, dull, humdrum, logy, monotonous, mundane, tedious, tiresome), ללא ארועים מיוח"ים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | eseménytelen (eventless, non-eventful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | non movimentato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 平穏無事 (peaceful and uneventful, tranquillity and peace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | へいお"ぶじ (peaceful and uneventful, tranquillity and peace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuhaghyrtagh, gyn taghyrt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eventfulunay rotineiro (workaday), calmo (calm, collected, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, Douce, even, even-minded, halcyon, half-light, impervious, irretentive, leisurely, mild, noiseless, passionless, peace loving, peaceable, peaceful, philosophical, philosophical belief, phloem, placable, placid, plodder, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, sedate, self-collected, sequestered, serene, smooth, sober, sober-blooded, staid, still, stilly, tranquil, unprovoked, unruffled, unstirred, untroubled). (various references) neinteresant (arid, dry, dull, dusty, flat, jejune, languorous), monoton (bald, dead, ding-dong, drab, dull, flat, humdrum, inanimate, monotonous, monotonously, same, singsong, slow, tame), fãrã evenimente importante. (various references) небогатый событиями, не богатый событиями. (various references) oskudan u događajima (eventless), jednoličan (drab, monotonous, uniform, unvaried). (various references) sin acontecimientos notables, sin acontecimientos extraordinarios. (various references) händelselös, händelsefattig. (various references) olaysız (eventless). (various references) не відзначений подіями, звичайний (accustomed, average, common, common or garden, consuetudinary, conventional, customary, everyday, frequent, homely, mediocre, natural, normal, ordinary, positive, regulation, rife, run of the mill, unexceptional, usual). (various references) không có chuyện gì xảy ra, không có biến cố; yên ổn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "uneventful": uneventfully, uneventfulness, uneventfulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Uneventful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unventful. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "uneventful" (pronounced u'nēve"ntful) |
| 7 | -v e" n t f u l | eventful. |
| 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-n-t-u-u-v" | |
-2 letters: eventful. | |
-3 letters: teenful, tuneful. | |
-4 letters: eluent, fennel, fluent, funnel, lenten, tunnel, uneven, unfelt, untune, venule. | |
-5 letters: elute, event, fleet, flute, lunet, unlet, venue. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-l-n-n-t-u-u-v" | |
+2 letters: uneventfully. | |
+4 letters: uneventfulness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 65 76 65 6E 74 66 75 6C |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. . ...- . -. - ..-. ..- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100110 01110101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n e v e n t f u l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0065 0076 0065 006E 0074 0066 0075 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807188718086728778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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