Non-descript

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Alternative form of nondescript..

Example Sentences

On the top of it we gathered ſeveral ſpecies of heath, ſome wild celery, a few ſhrubs, and ſome non-deſcript plants; […]

THE curiosity of the scientific world has for a long time been justly excited by the fossil remains of a non-descript animal, which have been found in North America and Siberia, but generally in so mutilated a condition as to give but very imperfect ideas either of the size or kind of animal to which they must have belonged.

[…] the pedestal, which is an irregular octagon, is ornamented with four non-descript animals, scaled over their breasts; […]

We drank, talked, and eventually we enjoyed some quite non-descript food.

Four tall, muscular men—a variety of races—in dark non-descript clothing surrounded him.

The film itself is stark, minimalist, a single character in a non-descript liminal space, somewhat created in a vacuum of sublime and heightened intimacy.

IT becomes the duty of the Editor, as much as it is his inclination, to return his public and grateful acknowledgments to the Gentlemen, through whoſe abilities and liberal communications, in the province of Natural Hiſtory, he has been enabled to ſurmount thoſe difficulties that neceſſarily attended the deſcription of ſo great a variety of animals, preſented for the firſt time to the obſervation of the Naturaliſt, and conſequently in the claſs of Non-deſcripts.

Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, ſatyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-deſcript.

Synonyms for non-descript

Antonyms for non-descript

Word Forms

• more non-descript
• most non-descript
• non-descripts

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