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undistinguished

[ uhn-di-sting-gwisht ]

adjective

  1. having no distinguishing marks or features.

    Synonyms: unremarkable, unexceptional, common, ordinary

  2. without any claim to distinction:

    an undistinguished performance.

  3. unnoticed; inconspicuous:

    He was an undistinguished part of the crowd.

  4. not separated or divided, as by sets or categories.


undistinguished

/ ˌʌndɪˈstɪŋɡwɪʃt /

adjective

  1. not particularly good or bad

    an undistinguished career

  2. without distinction

    undistinguished features

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of undistinguished1

First recorded in 1585–95; un- 1 + distinguished
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Example Sentences

Its first-ever season in the Premier League — 2017-18 — was undistinguished at best and ignominious at worst.

Playing as Quill typically finds you shooting your blasters at enemies ranging from fairly undistinguished robots to bouncing balls made up of eyeballs.

Let’s look closely at Court’s mark, the whole of it, including the undistinguished lead-pencil nature of some of those titles, and give it the asterisk it deserves and quit calling it the record.

The hit on Brown is mostly left to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, whose editorial board called Brown's record “undistinguished” when it endorsed Turner.

In the spring of 1984, Craig Virgin—already a two-time World Cross Country champion and one of the most decorated runners in American history—was running a 10,000-meter race in Eugene, Oregon, against a relatively undistinguished field.

But it does signal that the status quo is up for grabs and that undistinguished pols like Cantor should be shaking in their boots.

When she graduated from Mount Holyoke College, leaving behind an undistinguished record, she was floundering.

No doubt Chatwin's elevated sense of otherworldliness originated partly in embarrassment over his undistinguished background.

Shakedowns of this kind have a long and undistinguished history.

Undistinguished from any typical strap-hanger except perhaps by the light-hued eyes.

A couple of silent Martians prepared undistinguished meals and did housework in the quarters.

His youthful years were, however, entirely undistinguished, and at the age of thirty-one he had not a fixed abode of his own.

It was close kin to the room in which he had left Miss Grierson: ornate, undistinguished, and very expensive.

The world remained unwilling to learn his name—a somewhat undistinguished name, and easily forgotten.

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