nondescript

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈnɒndɪskɹɪpt/    美 /nɑndəˈskɹɪpt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A species or other type of creature that has not been previously described or identified.
    — Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-descript.
  2. An undistinguished, unexceptional person or thing.
    — In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.
  3. An unmarked police car. UK
    — By a nice British compromise, the enforcement car — visible just then as a white spot on the television screen — has nothing externally to show its police affiliation, but unlike the CID's nondescripts, carries two large policemen in uniform.
形容词 adj.
  1. Not described (in the academic literature). archaic
  2. Without distinguishing qualities or characteristics.
    — He drove a nondescript silver sedan.

词形变化

more nondescript comparative most nondescript superlative non-descript alternative nondescripts plural non-descript alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
nondescriptly nondescriptness non-nondescript

词源

词源 1
From non- + descript (from Latin dēscrīptus, past participle of dēscrībō).
词源 2
From non- + descript (from Latin dēscrīptus, past participle of dēscrībō).
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