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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

nondetective en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + detective.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not involving a detective (as many mystery novels do).
    • The closest character to Dupin in Poe's nondetective fiction is Roderick Usher in "The Fall of the House of Usher," that gothic nightmare of decadence... 2000, David Lehman, The perfect murder: a study in detection: