Found 3 items, similar to Indefinite.
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: indefinite
indefinite
adj 1: vague or not clearly defined or stated;
“must you be so
indefinite?”;
“amorphous blots of color having vague
and indefinite edges”;
“he would not answer so
indefinite a proposal” [ant:
definite]
2: not decided or not known;
“were indefinite about their
plans”;
“plans are indefinite”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Indefinite
Indefinite
\In*def"i*nite\, a. [L. indefinitus. See
In- not,
and
Definite.]
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1. Not definite; not limited, defined, or specified; not
explicit; not determined or fixed upon; not precise;
uncertain; vague; confused; obscure; as, an indefinite
time, plan, etc.
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It were to be wished that . . . men would leave off
that indefinite way of vouching,
“the chymists say
this,” or
“the chymists affirm that.” --Boyle.
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The time of this last is left indefinite. --Dryden.
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2. Having no determined or certain limits; large and
unmeasured, though not infinite; unlimited; as, indefinite
space; the indefinite extension of a straight line.
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Though it is not infinite, it may be indefinite;
though it is not boundless in itself, it may be so
to human comprehension. --Spectator.
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3. Boundless; infinite. [R.]
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Indefinite and omnipresent God,
Inhabiting eternity. --W. Thompson
(1745).
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4. (Bot.) Too numerous or variable to make a particular
enumeration important; -- said of the parts of a flower,
and the like. Also, indeterminate.
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Indefinite article (Gram.), the word a or an, used with
nouns to denote any one of a common or general class.
Indefinite inflorescence. (Bot.) See
Indeterminate inflorescence
, under
Indeterminate.
Indefinite proposition (Logic), a statement whose subject
is a common term, with nothing to indicate distribution or
nondistribution; as, Man is mortal.
Indefinite term (Logic), a negative term; as, the not-good.
Syn: Inexplicit; vague; uncertain; unsettled; indeterminate;
loose; equivocal; inexact; approximate.
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