as in boring
lacking in distinctive features or qualities
travelers settling for nondescript motel rooms that could be located anywhere
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Recent Examples of nondescript
Instead, there’s just a big, blank building with an equally nondescript name: Market Equities.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2024
The glass jar and black-and-white label are both fairly nondescript, but the scents spill the tea.
—Mandy Shunnarah, Them, 26 Nov. 2024
Unfortunately, most of the presets use nondescript names like FT1, FT2, FT3, and so on.
—PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
From the outside, the museum is nondescript, a bland gray structure that wouldn’t look out of place in an office block.
—Andrew Webster, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2024
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2024
The glass jar and black-and-white label are both fairly nondescript, but the scents spill the tea.
—Mandy Shunnarah, Them, 26 Nov. 2024
Unfortunately, most of the presets use nondescript names like FT1, FT2, FT3, and so on.
—PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
From the outside, the museum is nondescript, a bland gray structure that wouldn’t look out of place in an office block.
—Andrew Webster, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2024
See all Example Sentences for nondescript
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nondescript
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But to play to that dichotomy is a tightrope walk: lean too far one way and Indy becomes boring, either as too normal or a superhero.Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024
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The idea was clear enough, and conceptual artists have been struggling ever since to make works that are not as boring as this one.Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Use neutral, factual language to ensure the message remains honest and unbiased.Tina Gada, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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What constitutes the neutral rate has been a key point of debate in recent months, and Lagarde said Thursday that while it had not been discussed at the December meeting, staff saw it between 1.75% and 2.5%.Jenni Reid, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2024
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The egg chair is available in four colors—beige, brown, light gray, and dark gray—each with a 6-inch-thick seat cushion, plus back and side cushions for coziness all around.Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Dec. 2024
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Add the sleek profile sneakers to your footwear lineup to emulate their street style looks in any of the on-sale colors and patterns, including iceberg green, beige, or checkerboard peach.Ali Faccenda, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2024
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This week’s fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare Chief Executive Brian Thompson has unleashed a wave of public feeling — exasperation, anger, resentment, helplessness — from Americans sharing personal stories of interactions with insurance companies, often seen as faceless corporate giants.Tom Murphy and Devi Shastri, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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Compared to past conflicts, writing the killers as a nameless, faceless goon squad and then letting those nameless, faceless goons get away with it isn’t very affecting (or effective).Ben Travers, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2024
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was noncommittal when asked Thursday whether Biden will commute sentences for individuals on federal death row.Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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So far, Republican senators have been noncommittal about Kennedy's nomination.Caitlin Owens, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
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While congressional hearings are often dull set pieces, this one offered a remarkably lively and informative discussion of the practicalities and opportunities facing America regarding space resources.Greg Autry, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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For her, the glory of the honeymoon had been in the planning, the dreaming, the building up in her mind; what a letdown to find that Paris was just a place, that some days were full of chill gray drizzle, that the dull, thick bodies of other tourists blocked her from full joy.Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Nondescript.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nondescript. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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