unremarkable

adjective

un·​re·​mark·​able ˌən-ri-ˈmär-kə-bəl 

: 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

ˌən-ri-ˈmär-kə-blē 

adverb

an unremarkably dressed man

Synonyms

• average
• common
• commonplace
• cut-and-dried
• cut-and-dry
• everyday
• garden-variety
• normal
• ordinary
• prosaic
• routine
• run-of-the-mill
• standard
• standard-issue
• unexceptional
• usual
• workaday

Examples of unremarkable in a Sentence

a quiet and unremarkable child

Recent Examples on the Web

Groundhog Day celebrations also revolve around Phil's forecast, making the prophetic rodent and his family the focal point of an often otherwise unremarkable winter day. —Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2025

The system, in other words, is quite safe, with more than ten million passenger flights per year, almost all of them unremarkable. —Matthew L. Wald, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025

The airplane’s black box has been recovered and should shed more light on the final moments of the otherwise unremarkable flight from Wichita, Kansas. —Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2025

One night later, in another part of this Mexican border town, we were invited into a non-descript house in an otherwise unremarkable neighborhood. —Matt Rivers, ABC News, 29 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1625, in the meaning defined above