nondescript

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Without distinguishing qualities or characteristics.

   He drove a nondescript silver sedan.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   adj

   lacking distinct or individual characteristics

6. 6
   noun

   a person is not easily classified and not very interesting

7. 7
   adj

   Not described (in the academic literature).

Etymology

From non- + descript (from Latin dēscrīptus, past participle of dēscrībō).