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Definitions for nondescript
ˌnɒn dɪˈskrɪptnon·de·script

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. nondescriptadjective

    a person is not easily classified and not very interesting

  2. characterless, nondescriptadjective

    lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting

    "women dressed in nondescript clothes"; "a nondescript novel"

GCIDE

  1. nondescriptadjective

    Dull or uninteresting; undistinguished.

Wiktionary

  1. nondescriptnoun

    An undistinguished, unexceptional person or thing.

  2. nondescriptadjective

    Not described (in the academic literature); undescribed, unidentified.

  3. nondescriptadjective

    Without distinguishing qualities or characteristics; unexceptional.

    He drove a nondescript silver sedan.

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  1. nondescript

    Nondescript refers to something that lacks distinctive or interesting features or characteristics, making it unremarkable, unmemorable, or hard to describe.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Nondescriptadjective

    not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable

  2. Nondescriptnoun

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

  3. Etymology: [Pref. non- + L. descriptus described.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Nondescript

    non′de-skript, adj. novel: odd.—n. anything not yet described or classed: a person or thing not easily described or classed. [L. non, not, descriptus, describĕre, to describe.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of nondescript in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of nondescript in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of nondescript in a Sentence

  1. Robert Power:

    When the locks first started to appear a few years ago, we didn't pay much attention, they were pretty nondescript and you hardly noticed them. But now someone has spray-painted them bright orange.

  2. Zhang Hanwen:

    Remarkably for 30 million years, the entire first half of proboscidean evolution, only two of the eight groups evolved, most proboscideans over this time were nondescript herbivores ranging from the size of a pug to that of a boar. A few species got as big as a hippo, yet these lineages were evolutionary dead-ends. They all bore little resemblance to elephants.

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