undramatic

adjective

Definition of undramaticnext
as in unspectacular

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Recent Examples of undramatic A lot of change is undramatic growth, transformation, or decay, or rather its timescale means the drama might not be perceptible to the impatient. — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 24 Jan. 2024 If his family life was grounded and undramatic, his imaginative life was something like the opposite. — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024 Known for its delicate texture and undramatic look, this pie exudes old-school Southern class and charm. — Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2023 Fukuyama looked to the future a little mournfully, seeing a gray, undramatic expanse—a tableau for technocrats. — William MacAskill, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2022 See All Example Sentences for undramatic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undramatic
  1. unspectacular
  2. unexciting
  3. uneventful
  4. unsensational
  5. unrewarding
  6. uninteresting
  7. unimaginative
  8. boring
Adjective
  • His first few games alongside LeBron and L.A. coach J.J. Redick were unspectacular, including losses to Utah on February 12 and Charlotte on Februrary 19.
    — Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
  • And in past years, that’s how Mahomes operated best: with someone serviceable, even if unspectacular.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2025
Definition of unspectacular
Adjective
  • Will Warren and Carlos Carrasco are among the internal favorites to take the spot vacated by Cole, though the Yankees could explore the trade market or a slim, unexciting list of remaining free agents.
    — Gary Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Many economic forecasts show the U.S. adding somewhere around 150,000 jobs with a slight increase in the unemployment rate last month — a solid, if unexciting report.
    — Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of unexciting
Adjective
  • Meanwhile in Charlotte, it’s been an uneventful offseason for a change, almost to the point of boring.
    — Joseph Person, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Known for his often self-deprecating wit and warm smile, Uecker had an uneventful six-year MLB career with the Brewers and three other teams in the 1960s.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of uneventful
Adjective
  • But its most striking characteristic, now that the media is completely oversaturated with violent murders and courtroom dramas, is that De Lestrade’s work is so straightforward and unsensational.
    — Vogue, Vogue, 8 June 2018
  • Robinson, whose credits include The L Word and True Blood, approaches the story in such a low-key, unsensational way that the trio's beyond-bohemian arrangement is barely eyebrow-raising.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Oct. 2017
Definition of unsensational
Adjective
  • Higher education advisor Dan Ulin of Elite Student Coach in Los Angeles, California says downsides of unrewarding advanced degrees can extend far beyond the potential for long-term student loan debt and being thrust into an industry with limited (or no) growth potential.
    — Robert Farrington, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The big problem is that social media is unrewarding.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Definition of unrewarding
Adjective
  • In a multiverse of new and often uninteresting heroes, Cox is a life raft.
    — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Our effort to identify the source of this anomaly is in part a detective story and part a cautionary tale about the importance of preserving seemingly uninteresting data.
    — Viktor T. Toth, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2012
Definition of uninteresting
Adjective
  • Yet what was once novel and football-redeeming has turned dull and unimaginative.
    — Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Unlike the expressiveness of Blauvelt’s long collaboration with Kelly Reichardt, the visuals here look flat and unimaginative.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
Definition of unimaginative
Adjective
  • Then Saturday, Columbus sputtered to a disappointing (and boring) scoreless draw at home against the Houston Dynamo, one of the weakest MLS teams.
    — Andrew King, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Literature that doesn’t contain its own version of this deal—literature that tries to freeze-frame reality instead of transmuting it—is often boring, even alienating.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of boring

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“Undramatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undramatic. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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