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Nondescript

Non′de-script

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Noun.
A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable.

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nondescript

nondescript

English

Adjective

nondescript (comparative more nondescript, superlative most nondescript)

  1. (biology, now rare) Not described (in the academic literature); undescribed, unidentified.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 6
      In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.
  2. Without distinguishing qualities or characteristics; unexceptional.
    He drove a nondescript silver sedan.

Translations

Noun

nondescript (plural nondescripts)

  1. An undistinguished, unexceptional person or thing.

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