undistinguished


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un·dis·tin·guished

 (ŭn′dĭ-stĭng′gwĭsht)
adj.
1.
a. Marked by no peculiar quality; not distinguished; ordinary: an undistinguished appearance.
b. Lacking particularly good qualities; mediocre: an undistinguished performance.
2. Not separated from others into categories.
3. Unnoticed; unperceived: an undistinguished face in the crowd.
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undistinguished

(ˌʌndɪˈstɪŋɡwɪʃt)
adj
1. not particularly good or bad: an undistinguished career.
2. without distinction: undistinguished features.
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un•dis•tin•guished

(ˌʌn dɪˈstɪŋ gwɪʃt)

adj.
1. having no distinguishing marks or features.
2. without any claim to distinction.
3. not separated or categorized.
[1585–95]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.undistinguished - not worthy of notice
unnoticeable - not noticeable; not drawing attention; "her clothes were simple and unnoticeable"- J.G.Cozzens
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undistinguished

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undistinguished

adjective
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Translations

undistinguished

[ˈʌndɪsˈtɪŋgwɪʃt] ADJmediocre
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undistinguished

[ˌʌndɪˈstɪŋgwɪʃt] adj [person, career] → quelconque
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undistinguished

adj performance(mittel)mäßig; appearancedurchschnittlich
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undistinguished

[ˌʌndɪsˈtɪŋgwɪʃt] adj (pej) (person) → qualunque, mediocre; (career, design, performance) → mediocre
an undistinguished poet → un poetucolo
an undistinguished wine → un vino qualsiasi
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References in classic literature ?
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
He could have borne to live an undistinguished life, but not to be forgotten in the grave.
The wife of a free trapper to be equipped and arrayed like any ordinary and undistinguished squaw?
He was a man, apparently of middle age, of middle height, clean-shaven, with good but undistinguished features, dark eyes, very clear and very bright, which showed, indeed, but little need of the pince-nez which hung by a thin black cord from his neck.
Their arrival at Albany was undistinguished by any remarkable event, though Julia looked in vain through the darkness of the night, in quest of the fertile meadows and desert islands which Anna had mentioned in her letter.
No one could have called him handsome, no one could have found him undistinguished. Even without the knowledge of his millions, people who glanced at him recognised the atmosphere of power.
'Undistinguished' was the adjective that would have described him.
Fanny with doubting feelings had risen to meet him, but sank down again on finding herself undistinguished in the dusk, and unthought of.
Sir Robert Walpole, ruling the country with unscrupulous absolutism, had now put an end to the employment of literary men in public life, and though Johnson's poem 'London,' a satire on the city written in imitation of the Roman poet Juvenal and published in 1738, attracted much attention, he could do no better for a time than to become one of that undistinguished herd of hand-to-mouth and nearly starving Grub Street writers whom Pope was so contemptuously abusing and who chiefly depended on the despotic patronage of magazine publishers.
Everything seemed undistinguished about the priest, even down to his name, which was Brown; yet the colonel had always found something companionable about him, and frequently asked him to such family gatherings.
As for its legs, the right was a hoe handle, and the left an undistinguished and miscellaneous stick from the woodpile.
He went down there"--and he jerked his thumb over his shoulder in one of his undistinguished gestures-- "and can't have passed three lamp-posts yet.