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eventless

eventless

4.4
Without any important events or excitement
  • adjective
  • /ɪˈvɛntləs/
translation icon : sin eventos
  • Round 5 was kind of eventless.

Examples

  • The eternities he uncovered in Alice were not eventless extensions.

  • Aldous Huxley also warned us about the "social engineering" prohibition of "tragedy"—to make our lives consistently gray and eventless from birth to death.

    Blog text (11)
  • This realm has aspects of both the prehistoric and posthistoric, in that real-time distributed occurrence is a kind of undiscriminated, eventless at-onceness.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The rest of the time he remained in a profoundly eventless place deprived of all sense of history and happening, self-encysted, cocooned, enveloped in this metaphorical, if not physiological, equivalent of sleep... or death.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Sneaking past the Tiene Eilean Laboratory for Eponan Study's surveillance systems to get outside the treaty boundary was the best time he'd had in many months while living in the boring, eventless research facility.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • After a week of no interesting activities, I realized my vacation had been quite eventless.

  • The day was eventless, with nothing to do but relax at home and enjoy some quiet time.

  • Despite being in a beautiful location, the trip turned out to be eventless, lacking any planned excursions or adventures.

Synonyms

uneventful
vseventless
22 3.7

A time when nothing unusual or exciting happens

has identical meaning but uses a more general wording about lacking activity

Antonyms

1.0

Full of activity with many things to do

17 3.8

Full of important or unusual events

How Eventful

bustling
9 4.1
eventful
17 3.8
quiet
189 1.0
eventless
4.4

Surface Forms

eventless positive

Morphology

eventless = event (transparent) = event + less

The adjective is a direct formation from 'event' with the productive suffix '-less' meaning 'without', so the meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

Eventless is made from event, meaning 'something that happens', and the ending -less, meaning 'without'. So eventless describes a time 'without events', a quiet or uneventful period.