as in slow
not spectacular or special
The team has had an unspectacular season. The company's stock has shown consistent if unspectacular growth.
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Recent Examples of unspectacular
And in past years, that’s how Mahomes operated best: with someone serviceable, even if unspectacular.
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Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2025
Gracey gets an astonishing amount across in the details: the goofy creak of a leather jumpsuit, a camera angle tilted to show the utterly unspectacular pulley system that yanked Williams upside-down in front of a crowd of 125,000.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Now 32, Neymar’s unspectacular stint in Saudi Arabia will end this summer when his contract expires and the Chicago Fire have held discussions with his camp.
—Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
Michael Polish’s film gamely tries to compensate for unspectacular production values with a lot of action — but its staging is pedestrian at best.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
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Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2025
Gracey gets an astonishing amount across in the details: the goofy creak of a leather jumpsuit, a camera angle tilted to show the utterly unspectacular pulley system that yanked Williams upside-down in front of a crowd of 125,000.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Now 32, Neymar’s unspectacular stint in Saudi Arabia will end this summer when his contract expires and the Chicago Fire have held discussions with his camp.
—Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
Michael Polish’s film gamely tries to compensate for unspectacular production values with a lot of action — but its staging is pedestrian at best.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspectacular
Adjective
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The shark’s slow movement may have allowed the octopus to stay latched on, but if the mako had picked up speed, the octopus likely would have been forced off.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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While the dollar amount of initial aid is in line with what the U.S. has pledged in the past, the overall pace of the response has been slower.—
Shannon K. Kingston,
ABC News,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
Adjective
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Mainland China had a fairly uneventful day bouncing around the room with utilities underperforming.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Previous appointments were uneventful, and officials would typically issue a follow-up appointment.—
Hatzel Vela,
NBC news,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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With a choir and orchestra arranged by Axel Stordahl, the strings swell to heart-leaping proportions, while Sinatra keeps things sedate and sanguine with an undramatic vocal, which drips with a warm camaraderie.—
Emma Madden,
Vulture,
23 Dec. 2024
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On one hand, this was an extremely unsurprising and undramatic Bachelor franchise finale.—
Alice Burton,
Vulture,
14 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Strict and unimaginative gender norms were alive and well, and Weight Watchers was for the ladies (calories, of course, have no gender.—
John DeVore,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2025
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These hotels are, at their worst, sites of literal death, and at best, gilded cages for the unimaginative.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
17 Feb. 2025
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The soundtrack is largely untouched, which is a problem when some of the major themes are short and uninspiring to begin with.—
Josh Broadwell,
Rolling Stone,
18 Mar. 2025
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How has the market managed to hold its ground near record highs against a jarring breakdown in the bull market’s bell cow Nvidia , a jumpy bond market, some uninspiring results from Apple and Microsoft and on-and-off-and-on tariff threats against the America’s largest trading partners?—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Unspectacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspectacular. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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