nondescript

[non-di-skript] Origin

non·de·script

[non-di-skript]
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.

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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

Origin:
1675–85; non- + Latin dēscrīptus (past participle of dēscrībere to describe, define, represent; see describe)


1. undistinctive, usual, ordinary, unexceptional.

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nondescript (ˈnɒndɪˌskrɪpt)
 
adj
1.  lacking distinct or individual characteristics; having no outstanding features
 
n
2.  a nondescript person or thing
 
[C17: from non- + Latin dēscriptus, past participle of dēscribere to copy, describe]

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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.
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