NONDESCRIPT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nondescript mean? 

• NONDESCRIPT (noun)
  The noun NONDESCRIPT has 1 sense:

1. a person is not easily classified and not very interesting

  Familiarity information: NONDESCRIPT used as a noun is very rare.

• NONDESCRIPT (adjective)
  The adjective NONDESCRIPT has 1 sense:

1. lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting

  Familiarity information: NONDESCRIPT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONDESCRIPT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person is not easily classified and not very interesting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("nondescript" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

nondescript (lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting)

• NONDESCRIPT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting

Synonyms:

characterless; nondescript

Context example:

a nondescript novel

Similar:

ordinary (not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree)

Derivation:

nondescript (a person is not easily classified and not very interesting)

 Context examples 

I was now, it seemed, cut off upon both sides; behind me the murderers, before me this lurking nondescript.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They were neither large nor small, while their color was a nondescript brown; but in them smouldered a fire, or, rather, lurked an expression dual and strangely contradictory.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)