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ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
vague or not clearly defined or stated;
- Example: "must you be so indefinite?"- Example: "amorphous blots of color having vague and indefinite edges"- Example: "he would not answer so indefinite a proposal"2.
not decided or not known;
- Example: "were indefinite about their plans"- Example: "plans are indefinite"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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"