unremarkable

adjective

un·​re·​mark·​able ˌən-ri-ˈmär-kə-bəl How to pronounce unremarkable (audio)
: unworthy or unlikely to be noticed : not remarkable : common, ordinary
The village itself is unremarkable; its one great attribute being the nearby network of extensive caverns.Mark Blacksell
unremarkableness noun
unremarkably adverb
an unremarkably dressed man

Examples of unremarkable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web An archway of blue and white balloons adorned the entrance of an otherwise unremarkable office building in San Jose this week, marking the grand opening of a new high-tech laboratory for Kaiser Permanente Northern California, which serves 4.5 million people in the region. Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024 For many New Yorkers, the sight of trash bags piled high on the sidewalk is unremarkable. Larry Buchanan, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024 For the first 25 minutes, the Arizona Senate's floor session on March 18th was unremarkable. Wayne Schutsky, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024 The suit alone might have been unremarkable, but the simple act of not wearing a shirt with it made the look unforgettable. Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024 Everyone is hopelessly mixed up in everyone else’s life, which would be messy but basically unremarkable if not for the colossal sums of money involved. Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 The Slipper and the Rose (1976) And the shoe fits: Gemma Craven Bryan Forbes' The Slipper and the Rose, starring a lovely but mostly unremarkable Gemma Craven as the cinder-princess and a too-old Richard Chamberlain as her prince, makes a musical out of the beloved fairy tale. EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024 The emergence of a global middle class might seem unremarkable when compared with flashier transformations such as the digital revolution, globalization, or artificial intelligence. Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024 Robots have become mundane and unremarkable in retail stores and that is worth remarking on. Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1625, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of unremarkable was in 1625

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“Unremarkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unremarkable. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.

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