nondescript
pronunciation
How to pronounce nondescript in British English:
UK [ˈnɒndɪskrɪpt]
How to pronounce nondescript in American English:
US [ˈnɑndɪskrɪpt]
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- Noun:
- a person is not easily classified and not very interesting
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- Adjective:
- lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting
Word Origin
- nondescript (adj.)
- 1680s, "not hitherto described," in scientific usage, coined from non- + Latin descriptus, past participle of describere (see describe). General sense of "not easily described or classified" is from 1806.
Example
- 1. Traditional structures have been shorn from cities and replaced by nondescript , blocky modernity .
- 2. The nondescript three-sided wooden objects look like bookshelves in a carpenter 's workshop , but in china , they have become symbols of democracy .
- 3. A nondescript motel balcony in memphis .
- 4. He said the officers were wearing black uniforms and driving nondescript vans .
- 5. The villages are nondescript clusters of concrete buildings on dirt tracks but the lanes are lined with cypresses and poplar trees and wind through orchards of apricot and apple trees .