Meanings
comparative more uneventful · superlative most uneventful
- monotonous; lacking significant or noteworthy events
There were not many passengers, and the journey was uneventful until the frontier was reached at Padang Besar, although an armed escort of Malay police accompanied the train from Alor Star.
1955 April, “Notes and News: A Journey through Thailand”, in Railway Magazine, page 2861 more example
Even in Austria, a largely uneventful democracy, the far right Freedom Party has achieved startling electoral success on the strength of its ability to play up people’s suspicions and anger that "everything is rigged" and that the system is weighted to discount the popular will.
2016 August 31, Rashmee Roshan Lall, “Nationalism is the new normal in global politics”, in The NationalSynonyms: noneventful, eventless
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivemonotonous; lacking significant or noteworthy events
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivemarked by no noteworthy or significant events
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englisheventful
- Englishuneventful
Translations
Bulgarian безинтересен, незабележителен
- безинтересен (bezinteresen)lacking significant or noteworthy events
- незабележителен (nezabeležitelen)lacking significant or noteworthy events
Dutch rustig
- rustiglacking significant or noteworthy events
Finnish tapaukseton, yksitoikkoinen
- tapauksetonlacking significant or noteworthy events
- yksitoikkoinenlacking significant or noteworthy events
- vähätapahtumainenlacking significant or noteworthy events
- tapahtumaköyhälacking significant or noteworthy events
French sans histoire, calme
- sans histoirelacking significant or noteworthy events
- calmelacking significant or noteworthy events
- tranquillelacking significant or noteworthy events
German ereignislos, ruhig
- ereignisloslacking significant or noteworthy events
- ruhiglacking significant or noteworthy events
- ohne Zwischenfällelacking significant or noteworthy events
Hungarian eseménytelen
- eseménytelenlacking significant or noteworthy events
Polish bezwydarzeniowy
- bezwydarzeniowylacking significant or noteworthy events
Russian небога́тый собы́тиями, непримеча́тельный
- небога́тый собы́тиями (nebogátyj sobýtijami)lacking significant or noteworthy events
- непримеча́тельный (neprimečátelʹnyj)lacking significant or noteworthy events
- ниче́м непримеча́тельный (ničém neprimečátelʹnyj)lacking significant or noteworthy events
Spanish poco/nada aconteciente/acontecedor
- poco/nada aconteciente/acontecedorlacking significant or noteworthy events
Cite this entry
uneventful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uneventful
“uneventful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uneventful. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uneventful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uneventful.
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