Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Without event or incident; monotonous.
Wiktionary
- adj. Without events; uneventful.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Without events; tame; monotonous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful.
Examples
“This period which then seemed so futile and eventless is now of great importance to me.”
“Gen. Ahmad Reza Radan, called the June 12 anniversary "eventless" and said just "a few" people had been arrested in disturbances in Tehran, according to Press TV, the state-run English-language news agency.”
The Wall Street Journal: U.N. Sanctions Help Subdue Iranian Protests
“I once wrote "eventless;" but, on looking, found it not.”
“Newcastle Falcons continued their winning start to the Amlin Challenge Cup by beating Toulon 6-3 in an eventless affair in Pool Two.”
The Guardian: Newcastle 6-3 Toulon | Amlin Challenge Cup match report
“From an isolated, eventless existence, Jean Strouse extracts something that did not exist for centuries: a woman ' s interior life.”
“To the degree that this device contributes to the broader popular perception that ‘literature’ is pretentious, faddish, vague, eventless, effortful, and suffocatingly interior, quotation marks may not be quite as tiny as they appear on the page.”
“For my second reflection on this white-rimed night was that even an otter's prosaic, eventless passage along a dyke expressed a kind of triumph.”
“The 2012 primary season should be an eventless coronation for Barack Obama, akin to the nonexistent primary season of 1996, when Bill Clinton didn't even bother to formally declare his candidacy for a second term.”
“His post-vice presidency, which ended with his death in January 1979, was mostly eventless.”
“Somehow we've come to equate pedestrian escalators with airless utopian modernist city where conveyor belts ferret lone figures through an eventless urban landscape.”
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