Nondescript
['nɒndɪskrɪpt] or ['nɑndɪskrɪpt]
Definition
(noun.) a person is not easily classified and not very interesting.
Checker: Mortimer--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.
(n.) A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable.
Typed by Edwina
Definition
adj. novel: odd.—n. anything not yet described or classed: a person or thing not easily described or classed.
Typed by Deirdre
Examples
- The nondescript replied in encouraging terms, and brought him to a coffee-shop in the street within a stone's throw. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It was the old-fashioned wheeled nondescript belonging to the captain, and Thomasin sat in it alone, driven by Charley. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was a stormy, windy night, such as raises whole squadrons of nondescript noises in rickety old houses. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- In regard of the other Miss Dorrit, the nondescript lodged in the same house with herself and uncle. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The nondescript had known her many years. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The nondescript knew two Miss Dorrits; one who was born inside--That was the one! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But these are nondescripts and may be found equally among Hellenes and among barbarians. Plato. The Republic.
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