nondescript

Definitions


[ˈnɒndɪskrɪpt], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- lacking distinctive or interesting features or characteristics
(e.g: she lived in a nondescript suburban apartment block)


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Origin:
late 17th century (in the sense ‘not previously described or identified scientifically’): from non- + obsolete descript ‘described, engraved’ (from Latin descriptus)


[ˈnɒndɪskrɪpt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a nondescript person or thing
(e.g: the nondescripts were straight out of the nine-to-five banking bureaucracy)


Phrases:

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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