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
Employers added 151,000 jobs in February, a solid but unspectacular number, the Labor Department reported Friday, providing a snapshot of a labor market that has recovered from January’s bitter cold and has not yet felt the full brunt of the Department of Government Efficiency.
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Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2025
North Carolina was a noteworthy football program in the ACC under Mack Brown, with NFL talents at quarterback and some solid but mostly unspectacular seasons.
—Dan Santaromita, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
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
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Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2025
North Carolina was a noteworthy football program in the ACC under Mack Brown, with NFL talents at quarterback and some solid but mostly unspectacular seasons.
—Dan Santaromita, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspectacular
Adjective
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The building Celine now occupies what used to be a slow pop-up for Dior and Loro Piana.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
10 Apr. 2025
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Of the slow, unsexy work of loving someone even in the worst times.—
Ruhama Wolle,
Glamour,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Kenzie was far from the first contestant in Survivor history to earn her million dollars that way, and her victory, though unexciting, was not illegitimate.—
Mark Harris,
Vulture,
4 June 2024
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With the exception of the two men who provide the film with its ridiculously unexciting love triangle, everyone in Alex’s orbit is one-dimensional and uninteresting.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The rest of it wasn’t just boring or uneventful, but pretty sad.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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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
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
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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
Adjective
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Bottom line: The present is extremely uninspiring, but the future is … well, maybe not bright, but at least mildly luminous.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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The bottom line: The Rogue is attractive, if somewhat uninspiring to drive.—
Joann Muller,
Axios,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Unspectacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspectacular. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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