Nondescript meaning

nŏndĭ-skrĭpt
The definition of nondescript is someone or something that is plain and sort of blends in, with no distinguishing features.

A plain person with no notable features or characteristics is an example of someone who would be described as nondescript.

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Lacking distinctive qualities; having no individual character or form.
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He drove a nondescript silver sedan.

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An undistinguished, unexceptional person or thing.
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So lacking in recognizable character or qualities as to belong to no definite class or type; hard to classify or describe.
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Not interesting; colorless; drab.
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A nondescript person or thing.
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(biology, now rare) Not described (in the academic literature); undescribed, unidentified.
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Origin of nondescript

  • non– Latin dēscrīptus past participle of dēscrībere to describe describe

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From non- +"Ž descript.

    From Wiktionary

Nondescript Sentence Examples

  • Reminiscences of the Greek signs of Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, Capricornus and Pisces are obvious severally in the Hindu Two Faces, Lion's Tail, Beam of a Balance, Arrow, Gazelle's Head (figured as a marine nondescript) and Fish.

  • Almost all his more substantive works, whether in verse or prose, are preceded by prefaces of one sort or another, which are models of his own light pungent causerie; and in a vast variety of nondescript pamphlets and writings he shows himself a perfect journalist.

  • In supposing a direct perception of such a nondescript thing, he shows to what straits idealists are driven in the endeavour to supplement Kant's limitation of knowledge to phenomena by some sort of knowledge of things.

  • We have the clothes, even though they're pretty nondescript.

  • The nondescript course of action which began at the Constantinople conference and ended at Berlin was not of his direction until its few last days.

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