nondescript

1. 1.

   a person is not easily classified and not very interesting

   Broaderperson

1. 1.

   lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting

   “women dressed in nondescript clothes”

   “a nondescript novel”

   Synonymscharacterless

   Similarordinary

Other forms of nondescript

plural

nondescripts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nondescript

What does nondescript mean?

nondescript means "a person is not easily classified and not very interesting". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nondescript?

nondescript has 3 syllables: non-de-script. The stress falls on "non". In IPA it is /ˈnɑndɪˈskɹɪpt/.

What is another word for nondescript?

Close synonyms include characterless. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nondescript a common word?

nondescript is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with nondescript?

5 words rhyme with nondescript. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.