1. Unworthy of remark or note.
1611. Cotgr., Irremarquable, vnremarkable … no way to be noted.
1632. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., XI. Notes 397. Nor is this vnremarkable,… that the Kings-fisher being dead and hung vp by the Neb, turnes alwaies her belly to the wind.
1643. Sir T. Browne, Relig. Med., 55. It is not unremarkable what Philo first observed, That [etc.].
† b. Incapable of being observed. Obs.–1
1644. Digby, Nat. Bodies, v. § 2. 34. Our vnderstanding to make a compleate notion, must adde something else to this fleeting and vnremarkable superficies that may bring it into our acquaintance.
2. Not notable or striking.
1850. Kingsley, A. Locke, xxvii. As we may see by the histories of every remarkable, and many an unremarkable, man.
1853. G. J. Cayley, Las Alforjas, I. 155. We … saw Arahal, an unremarkable white town, on a slight eminence.
1879. St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 520. An unremarkable sprinkling of other workers.
