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nondescript adjective [ ˈnɒndɪskrɪpt ]

• lacking distinctive or interesting features or characteristics.
• "she lived in a nondescript suburban apartment block"
Similar: undistinguished, featureless, characterless, unremarkable, unexceptional, unmemorable, blending into the background, ordinary, commonplace, average, mediocre, run-of-the-mill, mundane, uninteresting, boring, uninspiring, dull, colourless, grey, anaemic, insipid, bland, bog-standard, common or garden,
Opposite: distinctive, extraordinary,

nondescript noun

• a nondescript person or thing.
• "the nondescripts were straight out of the nine-to-five banking bureaucracy"
Origin: late 17th century (in the sense ‘not previously described or identified scientifically’): from non- + obsolete descript ‘described, engraved’ (from Latin descriptus ).


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