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

For a guy into complicated killing rituals, Art sure does kill himself in an unremarkable fashion by putting the gun in his mouth and pulling the trigger. —Barry Levitt, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024

Driven by an unrelenting collapse in fertility, family structures and living arrangements heretofore imagined only in science fiction novels will become commonplace, unremarkable features of everyday life. —Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024

Hujar could not have imagined how radically the fortunes of the word would change; how, in just a few years, gayness would become fashionable—and then, with what in retrospect seems fantastic speed, unremarkable. —Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024

The packaging on this series is understated classic Macallan, which means to the casual observer a collection of Fine & Rare may just look like a few unremarkable bottles. —Mark Littler, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1625, in the meaning defined above