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
Put this one down as a steady if unspectacular future financial investment.
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Peter Rutzler, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
Bellinger had a solid if unspectacular season after a strong bounce back in 2023.
—Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 10 Dec. 2024
Nuno’s 2019-20 Wolves, who finished seventh in the league with 59 points, were unspectacular but solid from corners.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
Against this backdrop—not to mention this government’s serviceable, if unspectacular, budgets to date—investors were primed for some good news.
—Milan Vaishnav, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspectacular
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But Williams and the Bears offense, which have struggled all season with slow starts, certainly didn’t look cool and collected prior to the fourth quarter.Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2025
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Two juveniles darted across a branch, and the younger female began to hunt flying insects, moving in a slow crouch.Jessica Camille Aguirre, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
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While Gamuda reported unexciting results on Thursday, with net profit rising 5% year-on-year to 205.4 million ringgit in the three months ended October despite a 47% jump in revenue to 4.1 billion ringgit, Kenanga’s Teh projects stronger earnings ahead for the company.Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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So the Royals have firmed up their second base position (lefty-hitting Massey should move into a bench role) with a stable if somewhat unexciting presence who is locked in for the next couple of years.Tony Blengino, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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The author Kathryn Mannix—herself a palliative care doctor—has described ordinary deaths as rather boring, in fact, and often uneventful.Mark Taubert, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Its slumber, although uneventful, may deliver answers on the birth and growth of black holes.Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
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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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The firm is smart, if also unimaginative, to highlight competition with China — which is indeed bipartisan, though likely to be managed very differently by the incoming administration.Johanna Costigan, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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Sometimes, the genre becomes an excuse for amateurish or unimaginative filmmaking.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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The defense needed one more stop to give the offense a chance to salvage a largely uninspiring afternoon, but Jeff Hafley’s unit couldn’t muster it.The Athletic NFL Staff, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
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The report took into account living standards, cultural environment, housing, infrastructure, air quality and other features that can make a city either an attractive or uninspiring place to live.Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Unspectacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspectacular. Accessed 12 Jan. 2025.
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