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Webster 1913 Edition
Nondescript
Non′de-script
,Noun.
A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable.
Definition 2024
nondescript
nondescript
English
Adjective
nondescript (comparative more nondescript, superlative most nondescript)
- (biology, now rare) Not described (in the academic literature); undescribed, unidentified.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 6
- In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 6
- Without distinguishing qualities or characteristics; unexceptional.
- He drove a nondescript silver sedan.
Translations
biology: not described
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without distinguishing qualities
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Noun
nondescript (plural nondescripts)
- An undistinguished, unexceptional person or thing.