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Uneventful

Definition: Uneventful

Uneventful

Adjective

1. 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Uneventful

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Uneventful

English words defined with "uneventful": Eventlessuneventfully. (references)
Specialty definitions using "uneventful": ObedienceSIMON. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Uneventful

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Uneventful

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Uneventful

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)99.17%11929,501
Noun (proper)0.83%1339,140
                    Total100.00%120N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Uneventful

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

небогатый событиями, не богатый событиями. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oskudan u događajima (eventless), jednoličan (drab, monotonous, uniform, unvaried). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sin acontecimientos notables, sin acontecimientos extraordinarios. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

händelselös, händelsefattig. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

olaysız (eventless). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không có chuyện gì xảy ra, không có biến cố; yên ổn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Uneventful

Derivations

Words beginning with "uneventful": uneventfully, uneventfulness, uneventfulnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Uneventful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unventful. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Uneventful"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "uneventful" (pronounced u'nēve"ntful)
7-v e" n t f u leventful.
6-e" n t f u lresentful.
4-t f u lartful, 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 lapocryphal, 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.

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Anagrams: Uneventful

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Uneventful


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 65 76 65 6E 74 66 75 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100110 01110101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#101 &#118 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#102 &#117 &#108

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55807188718086728778

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INDEX

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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