eventful
pronunciation
How to pronounce eventful in British English:
UK [ɪˈventfl]
How to pronounce eventful in American English:
US [ɪˈvɛntfəl]
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- Adjective:
- full of events or incidents
- having important issues or results
Word Origin
- eventful (adj.)
- c. 1600, from event + -ful. According to OED, it is in Shakespeare, once ("As You Like It"), and there is no record of it between then and Johnson's "Dictionary." Related: Eventfully; eventfulness. Eventless is attested from 1815.
Synonym
Example
- 1. It really is a strange and eventful history .
- 2. The election is set for aug. 20 , after what promises to be a violent and eventful summer .
- 3. The next week will be eventful indeed , and it will take more than 100 billion in emergency bank lending to calm newly panicked markets .
- 4. After an eventful year , china has cleared the decks for a wholesale change of leadership amid a particularly challenging set of circumstances .
- 5. Uncertainty over the extent of the damage caused by the earthquake in north-east japan on march 11th , and the associated radiation leak at the fukushima daichi power station 140 miles ( 225km ) north of toyko , has made trading on japan 's stockmarket an eventful affair .