nondescript
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/ˈnɒndɪskɹɪpt/
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/ˈnɒndɪskɹɪpt/ (UK) · /nɑndəˈskɹɪpt/ (US)
Definition of nondescript
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- (archaic)Not described (in the academic literature).
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adj
- (archaic)Not described (in the academic literature).
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Without distinguishing qualities or characteristics.
“He drove a nondescript silver sedan.”
“There was, besides, a Scots mason, known from his favourite dish as "Irish Stew," three or four nondescript Scots, a fine young Irishman, O'Reilly, and a pair of young men who deserve a special word of condemnation.”
“In 1919, demobilisation specials from Purfleet, Essex, to the North, usually made up of nondescript, almost paintless or grey stock which had seen long wartime service, chalked with slogans, were worked through by way of Bromley and the North London line […].”
“We open in a grimy, fluorescent-lit military base somewhere in rural England, where the girl from the poster, Melanie (Sennia Nanua), is the star student in a class full of children who are wheeled into school—or at least, the nondescript concrete room that serves as a school—with their arms, legs, and foreheads bound to their wheelchairs by leather straps.”
“The plaque, of light-blue hue (a tone favoured by the Wiltshire market town's civic society), can be found on a nondescript structure just outside the station.”
noun
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A species or other type of creature that has not been previously described or identified.
“Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-descript.”
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An undistinguished, unexceptional person or thing.
“In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.”
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(UK)An unmarked police car.
“By a nice British compromise, the enforcement car — visible just then as a white spot on the television screen — has nothing externally to show its police affiliation, but unlike the CID's nondescripts, carries two large policemen in uniform.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From non- + descript (from Latin dēscrīptus, past participle of dēscrībō).
Words you can make from nondescript
200+ playable · top: CONSPIRED (14 pts)
Best play conspired 14 points9-letter words
10 words8-letter words
40 words- DEPICTOR 13 pts
- DESPOTIC 13 pts
- PERCOIDS 13 pts
- PREDICTS 13 pts
- PRESCIND 13 pts
- SCRIPTED 13 pts
- CONSPIRE 12 pts
- ENTROPIC 12 pts
- INCEPTOR 12 pts
- INCORPSE 12 pts
- PRETONIC 12 pts
- CENTROID 11 pts
- CONSIDER 11 pts
- CONTENDS 11 pts
- CORDITES 11 pts
- DIOPTERS 11 pts
- DIOPTRES 11 pts
- DIPTERON 11 pts
- DOCTRINE 11 pts
- ENDPOINT 11 pts
- PERIDOTS 11 pts
- PORTENDS 11 pts
- PORTSIDE 11 pts
- PRISONED 11 pts
- PROTEIDS 11 pts
- PROTENDS 11 pts
- RIPOSTED 11 pts
- SPRINTED 11 pts
- TOPSIDER 11 pts
- COINTERS 10 pts
- CORNIEST 10 pts
- NOTICERS 10 pts
- POINTERS 10 pts
- PORNIEST 10 pts
- PROTEINS 10 pts
- REPOINTS 10 pts
- TROPINES 10 pts
- INDENTOR 9 pts
- INTONERS 8 pts
- TERNIONS 8 pts
7-letter words
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- DEPICTS 12 pts
- DISCEPT 12 pts
- PERCIDS 12 pts
- PERCOID 12 pts
- PICOTED 12 pts
- PREDICT 12 pts
- COPIERS 11 pts
- COPTERS 11 pts
- CREPONS 11 pts
- CRISPEN 11 pts
- ENTOPIC 11 pts
- INCEPTS 11 pts
- INSPECT 11 pts
- NEPOTIC 11 pts
- PECTINS 11 pts
- PINCERS 11 pts
- POETICS 11 pts
- PORCINE 11 pts
- PRINCES 11 pts
- PROSECT 11 pts
- TRICEPS 11 pts
- TROPICS 11 pts
- CESTOID 10 pts
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- CODEINS 10 pts
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- CONTEND 10 pts
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- CREDITS 10 pts
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- DEONTIC 10 pts
- DEPORTS 10 pts
- DEPOSIT 10 pts
- DIOPTER 10 pts
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- DIPNETS 10 pts
- DIRECTS 10 pts
- DISCERN 10 pts
- DISPORT 10 pts
- DOCENTS 10 pts
- DOPIEST 10 pts
- NONDRIP 10 pts
- NOTICED 10 pts
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- POINTED 10 pts
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- PORTEND 10 pts
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- REDTOPS 10 pts
- RESCIND 10 pts
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- SECONDI 10 pts
- SOPITED 10 pts
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- SPORTED 10 pts
- STIPEND 10 pts
- STRIPED 10 pts
- TOPSIDE 10 pts
- TORPIDS 10 pts
- TRIPODS 10 pts
- CISTERN 9 pts
- CISTRON 9 pts
- CITRONS 9 pts
- COINERS 9 pts
- COINTER 9 pts
- CONINES 9 pts
- CONNERS 9 pts
- CONSENT 9 pts
- CORNETS 9 pts
- CORTINS 9 pts
- CRETINS 9 pts
- CRETONS 9 pts
- CRONIES 9 pts
- EROTICS 9 pts
- INCENTS 9 pts
- NEONICS 9 pts
- NOTICER 9 pts
- NOTICES 9 pts
- ORCEINS 9 pts
- ORPINES 9 pts
- PENSION 9 pts
- PINNERS 9 pts
- PINONES 9 pts
- PINTOES 9 pts
- POINTER 9 pts
- POINTES 9 pts
- PONTINE 9 pts
- POSTERN 9 pts
- PRONEST 9 pts
- PROSTIE 9 pts
- PROTEIN 9 pts
- PTERINS 9 pts
- RECOINS 9 pts
- REPOINT 9 pts
- REPOSIT 9 pts
- RETCONS 9 pts
- RIPOSTE 9 pts
- ROPIEST 9 pts
- SECTION 9 pts
- SPINNER 9 pts
- TENPINS 9 pts
- TROPINE 9 pts
- TROPINS 9 pts
- DENTINS 8 pts
- DINEROS 8 pts
- DINNERS 8 pts
- DONNERT 8 pts
- EDITORS 8 pts
- ENDRINS 8 pts
- INDENTS 8 pts
- INDORSE 8 pts
- INTENDS 8 pts
- INTONED 8 pts
- ORDINES 8 pts
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- ROSINED 8 pts
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- TENDONS 8 pts
- TINDERS 8 pts
- TRIODES 8 pts
- INTERNS 7 pts
- INTONER 7 pts
- INTONES 7 pts
- INTRONS 7 pts
- NORITES 7 pts
- OESTRIN 7 pts
- ORIENTS 7 pts
- STONIER 7 pts
- TENSION 7 pts
- TERNION 7 pts
- TINNERS 7 pts
- TONNERS 7 pts
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