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nondescript

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non⋅de⋅script

  [non-di-skript]
Use nondescript in a Sentence
–adjective
1. of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind: a nondescript novel; a nondescript color.
2. undistinguished or uninteresting; dull or insipid: The private detective deliberately wore nondescript clothes.
–noun
3. a person or a thing of no particular or notable type or kind.
Origin:
1675–85; non- + L dēscrīptus (ptp. of dēscrībere to describe, define, represent; see describe )

Synonyms:
1. undistinctive, usual, ordinary, unexceptional.
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non·de·script   (nŏn'dĭ-skrĭpt')   
adj.  Lacking distinctive qualities; having no individual character or form: "This expression gave temporary meaning to a set of features otherwise nondescript" (Katherine Anne Porter).

[non- + Latin dēscrīptus, past participle of dēscrībere, to describe; see describe.]
non'de·script' n.
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Word Origin & History

nondescript 
1683, "not hitherto described," in scientific usage, coined from non- + L. descriptus, pp. of describere (see describe). Sense of "not easily described or classified" is from 1806.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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