undistinguished

adjective

he had an undistinguished career as a lecturer in mathematics:

run-of-the-mill, ordinary, middle-of-the-road, average, common, commonplace, everyday, workaday, quotidian, pedestrian, suburban, mundane, mediocre, humdrum, prosaic, lackluster, 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.

▷antonyms distinguished, remarkable, extraordinary.