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nonspectral

nonspectral adjective: not spectral.

Adjective

nonspectral (not comparable)

  1. Not spectral.
    • I notice that each of the myriad towel carts on the Dreamward’s Deck 12 is manned by its very own Towel Guy, and that their Towel Guys are ruddily Nordic and nonspectral and have nothing resembling withering neutrality or boredom about their mien.1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group

Origin of nonspectral

From non- + spectral.

Questions about nonspectral

What does nonspectral mean?
Nonspectral means not spectral.
What part of speech is nonspectral?
Nonspectral is an adjective.

Words near nonspectral in the dictionary

  1. nonspecification
  2. nonspecificity
  3. nonspecified
  4. nonspeckled
  5. nonspectacular
  6. nonspectral
  7. nonspecular
  8. nonspeculation
  9. nonspeculative
  10. nonspeech
  11. nonspeeches

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