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nondescripts

nondescripts is the plural of nondescript.

Meaning of nondescript

Noun

nondescript (plural nondescripts)

  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.1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
  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.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 6, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
  3. (UK) An unmarked police car.
    • 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.1970, Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard: a study of the Metropolitan Police, page 118

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Questions about nondescripts

What is nondescripts the plural of?
Nondescripts is the plural of nondescript.

Words near nondescripts in the dictionary

  1. nondescriptions
  2. nondescriptive
  3. nondescriptively
  4. nondescriptly
  5. nondescriptness
  6. nondescripts
  7. nondesecration
  8. nondesensitizing
  9. nondesert
  10. nondeserted
  11. nondesertion

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