Both Uses of
nondescript
in
Moby Dick
- In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- Besides, the English whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American whalers; regarding the long, lean Nantucketer, with his nondescript provincialisms, as a sort of sea-peasant.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(nondescript) without distinct or individual characteristics -- perhaps dull and uninteresting