(a.) Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.
(n.) A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable.
Example Sentences:
(1) These lesions are nondescript papules or nodules primarily involving the head and neck areas of young adults.
(2) At the entrance to Kailash Satyarthi’s nondescript office is a small noticeboard, of the old fashioned type, with white plastic letters pressed into a dark felt background.
(3) A nondescript Gerard Deulofeu corner just before the half-hour was transformed by an improvised, volleyed flick from Gareth Barry.
(4) All this human wreckage leads to a nondescript white truck that could not be stopped by the weight of people in front of it or the bullets from the police officers who fired at it.
(5) Many cities have a history of hosting refugees; indeed, the typical image of a refugee dwelling – straight rows of nondescript tents set up on barren, faraway lands – is misleading.
(6) Silent, head bowed, shoulders hunched in an ill-fitting suit, Oscar Pistorius would have attracted little attention from a casual observer unaware of his central role in the drama under way on Monday, in a nondescript ground floor courtroom in Pretoria.
(7) At a nondescript factory nestled in an industrial Brooklyn waterfront, dozens of tech reporters, industry insiders and 3D printing enthusiasts last Friday filed in to attend the grand opening of the manufacturing headquarters of the best-known name in 3D printing .
(8) Wings for the A400M – made from lightweight composites rather than aluminium to dramatically reduce weight and improve speed and manoeuvrability – are taking shape inside a nondescript hanger in Filton called 07N.
(9) Mukesh, about 30, was quiet, nondescript, a follower, according to neighbours.
(10) Most lesions were nondescript papules and located on the upper part of the body, seven cases of neurothekeoma on the head.
(11) Transcriptional mapping of this region of the genome detected a late mRNA which was initiated at 450 base pairs to the right of the HindIII D-A junction, was transcribed in the leftward direction, and was terminated in the nondescript manner typical of vaccinia virus late mRNAs.
(12) Sitting in the basement of a nondescript apartment block, I entered the sauna complex and was immediately transported back in time.
(13) The peculiar chromatin pattern, as shown by immunohistochemical methods, occurs in striated muscle cells, histiocytes, Schwann cells, nondescript mesenchymal cells of the heart, and, rarely, cells outside of the heart.
(14) This was Maryino , a far-flung district in south-east Moscow Drug addicts tend to gather near the nondescript pharmacy here because it sells tropicamide eye drops , which are typically used to dilate the pupil, without a prescription.
(15) Most days at midday, Uber’s nondescript office in London’s King’s Cross opens its doors and dozens of men clutching sheaves of driving licences and insurance documents pour in.
(16) He has already indicated that we would rather live with Trierweiler in their modest nondescript flat in Paris's 15th arrondissement with its Ikea furniture than the 370-room Elysée Palace with its private cinema and 900 staff, including white-gloved factotums who set the pendulums on its scores of gold clocks.
(17) The eastern edge of the City is somewhat nondescript despite its Roman and medieval roots.
(18) He's wearing mid-blue "dad" jeans and a nondescript T-shirt which, along with his ever-present baseball cap and gap-toothed grin, constitute the signature Mac DeMarco look.
(19) The eruption may assume various clinical forms and may be characterized by a nondescript erythematous and eczematous appearance or may consist of an exaggeration, in the areas covered by the stretch garment, of already existing dermatosis such as lichen planus, psoriasis, acne vulgaris, discoid lupus erythematosus or atopic dermatitis.
(20) After subculture, the adherent periosteal-derived cells showed a nondescript, fibroblast-like morphology in cell culture.
Unexceptional
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The unexceptional validity of the autosomal-recessive hereditary transmission may be confirmed.
(2) The house she walks back to, and in which she and her husband, Geoff, live, is pleasantly unexceptional.
(3) In the present study the iron-founding town of Kirkintilloch was found to have standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) for respiratory cancer in 1959-63, 1964-8, and 1969-73 that were unexceptional in comparison with Scotland.
(4) We perceive the circumstances of our youth as normal and unexceptional, however sparse or cruel they may be.
(5) These compounds also proved to be unexceptional in their inhibition of LAP (17-O-, Ki = 56 microM; 17-NH2, Ki = 40 microM).
(6) Substrates with sequences related to the cathepsin G cleavage site in angiotensin I and angiotensinogen, and the reactive site of alpha 1-antichymotrypsin, were hydrolyzed effectively by enzyme, but with unexceptional rates.
(7) It is this part of the operation which registars find most difficult and why we suggested (June 30, p. 773) a different site for insertion in the unexceptional case.
(8) Labour spending increased considerably, but until the crash was still "unexceptional", either by historic UK standards or international ones.
(9) How a 'moment of anger' led to tragic death of Bailey Gwynne Read more Lowe, who also had to establish the relationship between Bailey and his killer prior to the stabbing, concluded that their altercation had been “an unplanned, spontaneous conflict that emerged rapidly out of an unexceptional banter.
(10) It is suggested that these results were unexceptional, except possibly for the failure of the plasma cholesterol concentration to rise when cholesterol was ingested, despite gross differences in diet and many other factors.
(11) The means for all groups were unexceptional, but some of the differences were significant.
(12) The junction region comprises one base pair and the two neighboring internucleotide linkages and exhibits full hydrogen-bonded base-pairing, full base-stacking, and unexceptional stereochemistry.
(13) 5) They had fear of fatness almost unexceptionally.
(14) Three arguments are presented: a) that Darwin, qua scientist, was only interested in species adaptation, an entirely different concept from that of individual adaptation, b) that Darwin's writings on individual adaptation are so unexceptional that it is inconceivable that psychologists should have been influenced by them and c) that the two concepts are logically incompatible since species adaptation presupposes a strict hereditary determinism, while individual adaptation conceives of the organism either as free and undetermined or else as determined by the environment.
(15) The amino acid composition is unexceptional, and no evidence for hexosamine has been obtained.
(16) The testicular involvement was unexceptionally bilateral with occasional differences in the grade of infiltration, slight to moderate.
(17) Williams insisted the information Mulcaire held was commonly used by the media and unexceptional.
(18) Before that, his teenage band the Jades had released two entirely unexceptional doo-wop tracks in 1958 and two years later he had chanced his arm as a solo singer, recording in the perky, post-rock'n'roll style that predominated in pre-Beatles America.
(19) Calais camp: fires sweep settlement as refugees leave – in pictures Read more Describing the tragedy as an unexceptional day at sea, MSF called on the EU to provide safe alternative routes rather than focusing on deterrence.
(20) Rate constants for the other reactions are unexceptional.