eventful

English

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Etymology

From event +‎ -ful.

Adjective

eventful (comparative more eventful, superlative most eventful)

  1. Of or pertaining to high levels of activity; having many memorable events.
    With the number of drunken revellers on the streets it could hardly fail to be an eventful night.
    • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
      […] there was something of the habitude of the wild animal in the unreflecting instinct with which she rambled on — disconnecting herself by littles from her eventful past at every step, obliterating her identity […]

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