eventless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

event +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

eventless (not comparable)

  1. Without events; uneventful.
    • 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz [], →OCLC:
      Meanwhile we went on with the lodging-house life—a squalid, eventless life of crushing boredom.
    • 2002, Roger Ebert, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, in The Great Movies:
      Life on board the Discovery is presented as a long, eventless routine of exercise, maintenance checks, and chess games with HAL.

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