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eventful

adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,559 of 15,258neutral

Eventful means full of things happening. An eventful day, an eventful journey, rather eventful.

It is neutral by definition and negative by tone: an eventful journey is one where things went wrong, and everybody hears that. Uneventful, its opposite, is what anybody wants a flight or an operation to be.

Definitions of eventful

  1. 1adjectiveeventfulFull of things happening.B2+

    “It was an eventful day: we missed the train, found a puppy and got engaged.”

eventful is a quality.

Where it comes from

Event plus -ful, from Latin eventus, an outcome, from evenire, to come out.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *gʷem-

  2. Latin

    ēventus — an event, occurrence

  3. Middle French

    event

  4. English

    event

  5. English, today

    eventful

Built from

  • ēveniō · Latin — to happen, to fall out, to come out
  • ē · Latin — out of, from
  • veniō · Latin — come

From event + -ful. event comes from Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

eventful in the wild

  • The ensemble portrays more than a dozen people who were important in Wright's eventful life.

    Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright

  • Uruguayan literature has a long and eventful history.

    Uruguayan literature

  • The district of San Francisco de Daguas finds located in the province of Chachapoyas Departamento of the Amazon his soils they present an eventful topography.

    San Francisco de Daguas District

  • The Feature race was won by Vitaly Petrov after an eventful Race which saw many safety car periods.

    2009 Istanbul Park GP2 Series round

  • The eventful life of Swami Vivekananda has been depicted in this drama.

    Bireswar (drama)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the event family

event

eventful — used about once every 9,395 pages · #11,559 · point at the bar for the others

  • uneventful