| 单词 | nondescript |
| 释义 | nondescriptWord family (noun) description (adjective) describable ≠ indescribable nondescript descriptive (verb) describe (adverb) descriptively From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishnondescriptnon‧de‧script /ˈnɒndəˌskrɪpt $ ˌnɑːndəˈskrɪpt/ adjectiveORDINARYsomeone or something that is nondescript looks very ordinary and is not at all interesting or unusuala rather nondescript suburban houseExamples from the Corpusnondescript• Nothing wrong with it, but at first I thought it was nondescript, and then I thought it felt weird.• The detective drives a nondescript blue Ford, perfect for observing people unnoticed.• Yet this nondescript clay pot endures.• The only people in the waiting room were a couple of rather nondescript elderly ladies.• Diana cut a nondescript figure in her checked shirt, her sister's anorak, cords and wellington boots.• a nondescript gray suit• He would show the secret symmetries in a nondescript life.• They were an average family living a boring life in a nondescript little house in the suburbs.• Further to the right the cliff becomes rather nondescript until a shallow, right-facing corner offers access to a fine steep wall.• Now, he wrote, it is in a little room in a nondescript Victorian terraced house in a side-street in South London.Origin nondescript (1600-1700) non- + Latin descriptus, past participle of describere; → DESCRIBE |
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