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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unremarkable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Josh was, I thought, a pleasant but unremarkable young man.
▪ She had a pale and unremarkable face.
▪ She had had just one adventure in her otherwise unremarkable life.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the time of his appointment to the viceroyalty Irwin was putting in an unremarkable stint as Minister of Agriculture.
▪ It was an unremarkable street: two rows of small houses, little shops, a pub.
▪ The differences are therefore in the expected direction but so slight as to be unremarkable.
▪ The dressing table revealed nothing and the bed-tables were unremarkable.
▪ The salmon was fairly simple, just some thinly sliced grilled fish on unremarkable toast points.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unremarkable

1610s, from un- (1) "not" + remarkable (adj.). Related: Unremarkably.

Wiktionary
unremarkable

a. Not remarkable.

WordNet
unremarkable

adj. found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant [syn: everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, workaday]

Usage examples of "unremarkable".

He looks like all of the other administrators which is to say completely unremarkable and leaves no physical impression upon Scop, now or hereafter.

In transvestic terms, the search for the Erotic Mother takes the form of alchemy, for when he cross-dresses, the CD is unconsciously attempting to transform his ordinary longing and unremarkable maleness into a thing of great beauty: the very embodiment of the Erotic Mother.

The groundcar easing its way toward Commander Blenheim through moderate traffic was of a type unremarkable on the streets of the Fortress, though it would have been conspicuous almost anywhere else.

Their presence here was unremarkable, and Shasa was on excellent terms with the Mauritian government and most of the influential figures on the island.

However, she was willing to guess that he was most likely male, white, over thirty, of average to above-average intelligence, nonpsychotic, probably compulsive and perfectionistic, presenting a neat, clean, unremarkable appearance, probably employed at the present, though possibly with an inconsistent or checkered job history.

I had to read the article quickly, since Griffith was obviously growing impatient: Like the letter first disclosed by the Oregonian last week, the one received yesterday arrived in an unremarkable white envelope bearing a Roseburg postmark.

Certainly the queens have all been superbly intelligent women, though unremarkable in other ways.

He looks like all of the other administrators which is to say completely unremarkable and leaves no physical impression upon Scop, now or hereafter.

Next to Aidan, with his black hair and slate-gray eyes, Dennis looked washed out, his brown hair and eyes unremarkable.

The next three boxes all contained chestnuts, all unremarkable to my eyes.

It seems unremarkable that Hollywood zeros and college dropouts sneer about the intelligence of the guy who won the Cold War.

A man, van Effen reflected, ideally suited for his task - a small, drab, unremarkable nonentity of a man who could have been first cousin of the other nonentity who consumed so remarkably few jonge jenevers in the close vicinity of the reception desk in the lobby.

The display shifted slightly as the intercept vector was updated, came to rest on one of the sensory clusters: eight impressively colored organs, each a few square meters in area, grouped around a large expanse of otherwise unremarkable gray skin.

One curving surface was almost smooth except for a large elongated astrobleme (he'd thought craters weren't supposed to form like that) which was the most remarkable feature of the unremarkable rock.

His sandy-brown hair was barbered in a timelessly moderate length and style that would be unremarkable in an age of brush cuts or in an era of shoulder-length locks.