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nondetective

nondetective adjective: not involving a detective (as many mystery novels do).

Adjective

nondetective (not comparable)

  1. Not involving a detective (as many mystery novels do).
    • The closest character to Dupin in Poe's nondetective fiction is Roderick Usher in "The Fall of the House of Usher," that gothic nightmare of decadence...2000, David Lehman, The perfect murder: a study in detection

Origin of nondetective

From non- + detective.

Questions about nondetective

What does nondetective mean?
Nondetective means not involving a detective (as many mystery novels do).
What part of speech is nondetective?
Nondetective is an adjective.

Words near nondetective in the dictionary

  1. nondetectability
  2. nondetectable
  3. nondetected
  4. nondetection
  5. nondetections
  6. nondetective
  7. nondetects
  8. nondetention
  9. nondetergent
  10. nondetergents
  11. nondeteriorating

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