'Indefinite' definitions:
Definition of 'indefinite'
From: WordNet
adjective
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]
adjective
Not decided or not known; "were indefinite about their plans"; "plans are indefinite"
Definition of 'Indefinite'
From: GCIDE
- Indefinite \In*def"i*nite\, a. [L. indefinitus. See In- not, and Definite.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The time of this last is left indefinite. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Having no determined or certain limits; large and unmeasured, though not infinite; unlimited; as, indefinite space; the indefinite extension of a straight line. [1913 Webster]
- Though it is not infinite, it may be indefinite; though it is not boundless in itself, it may be so to human comprehension. --Spectator. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Boundless; infinite. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Indefinite and omnipresent God, Inhabiting eternity. --W. Thompson (1745). [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Bot.) Too numerous or variable to make a particular enumeration important; -- said of the parts of a flower, and the like. Also, indeterminate. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'indefinite'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- ambiguous,
- amorphic,
- amorphous,
- anarchic,
- baffling,
- baggy,
- bewildering,
- bland,
- blear,
- bleared,
- bleary,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- boundless,
- broad,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- characterless,
- collective,
- confused,
- confusing,
- cryptic,
- dark,
- dim,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- endless,
- enduring,
- equivocal,
- faint,
- featureless,
- feeble,
- filmy,
- foggy,
- formless,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- generalized,
- generic,
- half-seen,
- half-visible,
- hazy,
- hesitant,
- hit-or-miss,
- ill-defined,
- immeasurable,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- incalculable,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconspicuous,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indelible,
- indestructible,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- indistinguishable,
- ineffaceable,
- ineradicable,
- inexact,
- inexplicit,
- infinite,
- inform,
- kaleidoscopic,
- lax,
- limitless,
- loose,
- low-profile,
- lumpen,
- measureless,
- merely glimpsed,
- misty,
- mystifying,
- nebulous,
- neutral,
- nondescript,
- nonspecific,
- obscure,
- orderless,
- out of focus,
- pale,
- permanent,
- puzzling,
- random,
- semivisible,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shapeless,
- shilly-shallying,
- stochastic,
- sub judice,
- sweeping,
- unbounded,
- uncertain,
- uncharacterized,
- unclear,
- uncountable,
- uncounted,
- undecided,
- undefinable,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undestroyable,
- undetermined,
- undifferentiated,
- unerasable,
- unfixed,
- unknown,
- unlimited,
- unmeasured,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unplain,
- unrecognizable,
- unsettled,
- unspecific,
- unspecified,
- unsure,
- vacillating,
- vague,
- veiled,
- wavering,
- weak,
- wide,
- wishy-washy