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
Meanwhile, each zone is punctuated by boss fights that are unspectacular and fail to present much challenge, especially when players can buy potions.
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Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
At the plate, after posting a solid if unspectacular .758 OPS with 13 home runs in 2024, Wong is off to a dismal start this season, with just two hits and three walks in 26 trips to the plate.
—Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
Reimer’s season has been unspectacular, but the Sabres don’t win this game without him.
—Matthew Fairburn, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
Many members of the NFL media questioned the decision to switch quarterbacks with the Steelers sitting at 4-2 and looking solid yet unspectacular.
—Ben Morse, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspectacular
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The solution to getting those who may be slower to embrace AI isn’t to push them harder, but to coach them and consider their backgrounds.—
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Still, even if the growth is slower than in some North American leagues, European teams continue to appreciate.—
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Vodka is all-too-often written off as an unexciting category of spirit.—
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Producers love an unexciting telecast, but audiences are hungry for the kind of raw emotion and drama that populates the films that win the awards.—
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After a relatively uneventful race, the drama began when Mercedes’ Andrea Kimi Antonelli had a power failure and was forced onto the gravel.—
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His jab and range-finding controlled a mostly uneventful round.—
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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.—
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On one hand, this was an extremely unsurprising and undramatic Bachelor franchise finale.—
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The world of streetwear, expensive sneakers and sweatshirts is an unimaginative and dreary place.—
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These answers are admittedly unimaginative, as neither of these guys were linked to the Panthers.—
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Like you, or, sorry, like the woman in the book, the ordinary feels so uninspiring, so monotonous.—
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Of course, most teams would welcome the position the Padres find themselves in: still possessing baseball’s fifth-best record despite weeks of largely uninspiring offense.—
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“Unspectacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspectacular. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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