as in boring
lacking in distinctive features or qualities
travelers settling for nondescript motel rooms that could be located anywhere
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Blom works at a nondescript psychiatric facility that is tucked into a medical and business complex in The Hague.
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Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2024
The archives are housed in a nondescript Sony outpost several miles from the main studio lot in Culver City that was previously home to MGM.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2024
Although she was born in Oakland, California, most of Harris’s early childhood was spent in a nondescript duplex apartment located above a day care facility in an area of West Berkeley known as the flatlands (her parents met as graduate students at UC Berkeley).
—Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 31 July 2024
The mayor’s official residence, the Getty House, is a nondescript Tudor-style home that sits on a corner in the Windsor Square neighborhood and fits seamlessly into its lineup of historic mansions.
—Cindy Von Quednow, CNN, 24 July 2024
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Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2024
The archives are housed in a nondescript Sony outpost several miles from the main studio lot in Culver City that was previously home to MGM.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2024
Although she was born in Oakland, California, most of Harris’s early childhood was spent in a nondescript duplex apartment located above a day care facility in an area of West Berkeley known as the flatlands (her parents met as graduate students at UC Berkeley).
—Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 31 July 2024
The mayor’s official residence, the Getty House, is a nondescript Tudor-style home that sits on a corner in the Windsor Square neighborhood and fits seamlessly into its lineup of historic mansions.
—Cindy Von Quednow, CNN, 24 July 2024
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“Nondescript.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nondescript. Accessed 8 Sep. 2024.
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