unremarkable

adjective

un·​re·​mark·​able ˌən-ri-ˈmär-kə-bəl How to pronounce unremarkable (audio)
: unworthy or unlikely to be noticed : not remarkable : common, ordinary
The village itself is unremarkable; its one great attribute being the nearby network of extensive caverns.Mark Blacksell
unremarkableness noun
unremarkably adverb
an unremarkably dressed man

Examples of unremarkable in a Sentence

a quiet and unremarkable child
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The ballot itself is an unremarkable piece of office paper and comes with simple instructions. Eno Sarris, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025 Born Robert Peter Williams in the unremarkable city of Stoke-on-Trent, one of the best-selling British solo acts of all time first found stardom as a teenager in the ’90s boy band Take That. Emma Madden, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025 Helping fund the progressive program is a seemingly unremarkable fiscal detail: The money borrowed for the work will be paid back with property tax dollars being freed up across the city as controversial tax increment financing districts, or TIFs, begin to expire. A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2025 Perhaps doing away with street co-naming would get rid of the drama and bureaucracy, achieving the otherwise unachievable: making it so that each New Yorker is as unremarkable as their neighbor. Fran Hoepfner, Curbed, 31 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for unremarkable 

Word History

First Known Use

1625, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of unremarkable was in 1625

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“Unremarkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unremarkable. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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