Meanings of defy categorisation in English

And her ability to defy categorisation is a strength, Palmer adds.

But some lots defy categorisation because people can -and do -collect pretty much everything.

It is a car that still defies categorisation and marketplace rivalry.

It might be a cliche to say that a work defies categorisation, but this one really does.

Smith's work defied categorisation, combining as it did elements of satire, social commentary, grumbling misanthropy and an abiding enthusiasm for cunning wordplay.

Picture the mutant child of the industrial revolution and TV's archetypal mad professor and you're close, although the Dublin 7 abode defies categorisation.