Nondescript
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈnɒndɪskɹɪpt/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Nondescript is an adjective meaning (biology, now rare) Not described (in the academic literature).
Meaning
(biology, now rare) Not described (in the academic literature).
More Meanings
- Without distinguishing qualities or characteristics.
- An undistinguished, unexceptional person or thing.
- (UK) An unmarked police car.
- (chiefly biology) A species or other type of creature that has not been previously described or identified.
Example Sentences
He drove a nondescript silver sedan.
In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.
The plaque, of light-blue hue (a tone favoured by the Wiltshire market town's civic society), can be found on a nondescript structure just outside the station.
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.
Word Forms
- non-descript
- nondescripts
Synonyms for nondescript
Depending on context, synonyms include undescribed, unidentified, undescript, unexceptional, plain, ordinary.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include characterless, ordinary, non-descript, undescript, indescript, undescribed.
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