Eventful
[ɪ'ventfʊl;-f(ə)l] or [ɪ'vɛntfl]
Definition
(adj.) full of events or incidents; 'the most exhausting and eventful day of my life' .
Edited by Claudette--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Full of incidents.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Remarkable, memorable, signal, important, marked, noted, critical, stirring,notable
ANT:Ordinary, unmarked, unimportant, eventless, uninteresting, characterless,trivial
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Examples
- She had not yet had any anxiety about ways and means, although her domestic life had been expensive as well as eventful. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Miret, the short-tempered and kind-hearted bookseller, who had so kindly found me a seat that eventful night in the park. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was thirty in the eventful year 1871. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All Europe still remembers the strange atmosphere of those eventful sunny August days, the end of the Armed Peace. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He went down in 1848, a very eventful year for Europe, of which we shall tell in the next chapter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This part of her eventful history Becky gave with the utmost feminine delicacy and the most indignant virtue. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mrs Veneering, during the same eventful hours, is not idle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This was the state of matters, on the afternoon of, what I may be excused for calling, that eventful and important Friday. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- EVENTFUL winter passed; winter, the respite of our ills. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The eventful Thursday at length came. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Edison himself gives the details of this eventful move, when he went East to grow up with the new art of electricity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So were Mr. Jingle and Miss Wardle, for reasons of sufficient importance in this eventful history to be narrated in another chapter. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- That night was an eventful one to Eustacia's brain, and one which she hardly ever forgot. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Early to bed to-night, Watson, for I foresee that to-morrow may be an eventful day. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mrs. Rawdon's dress was pronounced to be charmante on the eventful day of her presentation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They could find no praise warm enough for the man who had organized the echoes and tamed the lightning, and whose career was so picturesque with eventful and romantic development. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was a great augmentation of my uneasiness to be bereaved, at this eventful crisis, of the inestimable services of Miss Mills. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- These would express the overruling characteristics of his eventful career. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was evident that very grave and eventful proceedings were on foot; but various surmises were afloat, respecting their precise character. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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