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unremarkable

  • [ˌʌn.ɹɪˈmɑː.kə.bl̩] UK
  • [ˌʌn.ɹɪˈmɑɹ.kə.bl̩] US

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adjective more unremarkable · most unremarkable

  1. Not remarkable. The temptation is to regard him [John Ogdon] as an idiot savant, a big talent bottled inside a recalcitrant body and accompanied by a personality that seems not just unremarkable, but almost entirely blank.

    Similar: nondescript, commonplace, jejune, mundane, ordinary, average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, common-and-garden, common-or-garden

Opposite: remarkable

noun unremarkables

  1. Someone or something that is not remarkable. On a pelagic trip to Stellwagen Bank off the Boston coast, I watched a group of this type take a humpback whale in stride, get mildly stirred by the schoolmarm’s jaeger, and merely glance at a shearwater. But they changed their tune when a Sabine’s gull emerged from a flock of unremarkables. “A Sabi

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adjective

Opposite: remarkable

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adj not remarkable

Españolcomún y corriente, ordinario, equis, nada especial, poco notable, andino
中文不起眼 bùqǐyǎn, 平凡 píngfán, 平淡無奇 /平淡无奇, 不顯著 /不显著 bù xiǎnzhù
Françaisbanal, commun, ordinaire
Italianoinsignificante
Românăneremarcabil, insignifiant
Русскийобыкнове́нный obyknovénnyj, непримеча́тельный neprimečátelʹnyj
Tiếng Việttầm thường

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@misc{unremarkable_2026,
  title = {unremarkable},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/unremarkable},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}