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Definition of nondescript adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

nondescript

adjective
 
/ˈnɒndɪskrɪpt/
 
/ˈnɑːndɪskrɪpt/
(disapproving)
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  1. having no interesting or unusual features or qualities synonym dull
    • a nondescript person/building/town
    Extra Examples
    • He wore a shabby suit and looked thoroughly nondescript.
    • His hair was nondescript sandy and thinning.
    • It was a bare landscape occasionally interrupted by nondescript villages.
    Word Originlate 17th cent. (in the sense ‘not previously described or identified scientifically’): from non- + obsolete descript ‘described, engraved’ (from Latin descriptus).
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