Both Uses of
anonymous
in
Arrowsmith
- He nodded and gurgled in brief smothering sleep; he sprawled on the seat and talked with friendly fellow vagrants; he drank bitter coffee and ate enormously of buckwheat cakes at a station restaurant; and so, changing at anonymous towns, he came at last to the squatty shelters, the two wheat-elevators, the cattle-pen, the oil-tank, and the red box of a station with its slushy platform, which composed the outskirts of Wheatsylvania.
Chpt 9anonymous = lacking individuality or interesting features
- The McGurk Line pier was in South Brooklyn, in a district of brown anonymous houses.
Chpt 32 *
Definition:
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(anonymous as in: an anonymous, uninteresting house) lacking individuality or interesting features