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
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.
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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
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
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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
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
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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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Instead of moving with strength or purpose, the suit is agile, lithe, and capable of sliding out of the way of green projectiles to trigger a slow down and gain access to more powerful attacks.—
Kazuma Hashimoto,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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
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Another way of saying it: these companies generally are boring, unexciting and keep to themselves for the most part.—
John Navin,
Forbes.com,
27 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
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
Adjective
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The Blue Jackets won the shot battle 19-14 through two periods, but Toronto seemed poised to earn a close, relatively uninspiring win, thanks to Anthony Stolarz holding his ground between the pipes and Nick Robertson coming up with two quality finishes.—
Nick Ashbourne,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 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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“Unspectacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspectacular. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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