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单词 undistinguished
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Definition of undistinguished in English:

undistinguished

adjectiveʌndɪˈstɪŋɡwɪʃtˌəndəˈstɪŋɡwɪʃt
  • Lacking distinction; unexceptional.

    平凡的;平庸的

    an undistinguished career

    平凡的事业。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This can be seen most clearly in the undistinguished suburban housing development projects.
    • Faced with entering the working world or graduate school they confront the reality of their undistinguished academic career.
    • With a shudder he turned back and entered the ball once more, just as unnoticeable and undistinguished that he had been when he first arrived.
    • Strictly speaking, it means commonplace, undistinguished, but has come to mean pertaining to the people.
    • In my view, it was not very interesting; undistinguished and forgettable are the adjectives I would use.
    • A couple of undistinguished losses hastened the end of his career.
    • Of all my rather undistinguished classmates, one was stunning.
    • Hogg was no ordinary Tory minister, however undistinguished his career.
    • The walls are blank and white, everything is plain and undistinguished in the low light.
    • No undistinguished schoolboy could hope for more.
    • The other three enjoy undistinguished but lengthy careers.
    • Her style is undistinguished and her characterization slight, but sufficient for the exigencies of the form.
    • His dad, Milt, had an undistinguished professional career after starring at Louisville.
    • But what we get is a musically undistinguished, lyrically trite rock-show, tricked out with vampirism, incest and gore.
    • Well, I will say it's probably the shortest my hair has been since my short and undistinguished time in the U.S. Marines.
    • Until 1994, when he was elected governor of Texas, Bush was known as the undistinguished son of a distinguished father.
    • He had an undistinguished big-league career as a first and third-baseman.
    • The aircraft enjoyed an undistinguished and short career as a racer before being put up for sale.
    • The undistinguished career for the first Delgado racer had come to a very abrupt end.
    • Consider the man's long and massively undistinguished record.
    Synonyms
    run-of-the-mill, ordinary, middle-of-the-road, average, common, commonplace, everyday, workaday, quotidian, pedestrian, suburban, mundane, mediocre, humdrum, prosaic, lacklustre, unexceptional, indifferent, forgettable, unmemorable, uninspired, unimpressive, unexciting, unspectacular, uneventful, unremarkable, inconsequential, unnoticeable, inconspicuous, characterless, featureless, nondescript, plain, simple, fair, not bad, passable, all right, middling, moderate
    hackneyed, trite, jejune
    North American garden-variety
    informal nothing special, no big deal, no great shakes, nothing to write home about, nothing to get excited about, not so hot, not up to much, not much cop, OK, okay, so-so, bog standard, (plain) vanilla, fair-to-middling, a dime a dozen
    British informal common or garden
    North American informal ornery, bush-league
    Australian/New Zealand informal half-pie

Definition of undistinguished in US English:

undistinguished

adjectiveˌəndəˈstiNGɡwiSHtˌəndəˈstɪŋɡwɪʃt
  • Lacking distinction; unexceptional.

    平凡的;平庸的

    an undistinguished career

    平凡的事业。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Until 1994, when he was elected governor of Texas, Bush was known as the undistinguished son of a distinguished father.
    • His dad, Milt, had an undistinguished professional career after starring at Louisville.
    • He had an undistinguished big-league career as a first and third-baseman.
    • No undistinguished schoolboy could hope for more.
    • Hogg was no ordinary Tory minister, however undistinguished his career.
    • The walls are blank and white, everything is plain and undistinguished in the low light.
    • With a shudder he turned back and entered the ball once more, just as unnoticeable and undistinguished that he had been when he first arrived.
    • The undistinguished career for the first Delgado racer had come to a very abrupt end.
    • Of all my rather undistinguished classmates, one was stunning.
    • This can be seen most clearly in the undistinguished suburban housing development projects.
    • Consider the man's long and massively undistinguished record.
    • Faced with entering the working world or graduate school they confront the reality of their undistinguished academic career.
    • Strictly speaking, it means commonplace, undistinguished, but has come to mean pertaining to the people.
    • A couple of undistinguished losses hastened the end of his career.
    • Well, I will say it's probably the shortest my hair has been since my short and undistinguished time in the U.S. Marines.
    • The other three enjoy undistinguished but lengthy careers.
    • The aircraft enjoyed an undistinguished and short career as a racer before being put up for sale.
    • But what we get is a musically undistinguished, lyrically trite rock-show, tricked out with vampirism, incest and gore.
    • Her style is undistinguished and her characterization slight, but sufficient for the exigencies of the form.
    • In my view, it was not very interesting; undistinguished and forgettable are the adjectives I would use.
    Synonyms
    run-of-the-mill, ordinary, middle-of-the-road, average, common, commonplace, everyday, workaday, quotidian, pedestrian, suburban, mundane, mediocre, humdrum, prosaic, lacklustre, unexceptional, indifferent, forgettable, unmemorable, uninspired, unimpressive, unexciting, unspectacular, uneventful, unremarkable, inconsequential, unnoticeable, inconspicuous, characterless, featureless, nondescript, plain, simple, fair, not bad, passable, all right, middling, moderate
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