'Indistinct' definitions:
Definition of 'indistinct'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand; "indistinct shapes in the gloom"; "an indistinct memory"; "only indistinct notions of what to do" [ant: distinct]
Definition of 'Indistinct'
From: GCIDE
- Indistinct \In`dis*tinct"\ ([i^]n`d[i^]s*t[i^][ng]kt"), a. [L. indistinctus: cf. F. indistinct. See In- not, and Distinct.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Not distinct or distinguishable; not separate in such a manner as to be perceptible by itself; as, the indistinct parts of a substance. "Indistinct as water is in water." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Obscure to the mind or senses; not clear; not definite; confused; imperfect; faint; as, indistinct vision; an indistinct sound; an indistinct idea or recollection. [1913 Webster]
- When we come to parts too small four our senses, our ideas of these little bodies become obscure and indistinct. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- Their views, indeed, are indistinct and dim. --Cowper.
- Syn: Undefined; indistinguishable; obscure; indefinite; vague; ambiguous; uncertain; confused. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'indistinct'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- alike,
- ambiguous,
- amorphous,
- barely audible,
- blear,
- bleared,
- bleary,
- blind,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- breathy,
- broad,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- choked,
- choking,
- clear as mud,
- cloudy,
- confused,
- croaking,
- dark,
- decrescendo,
- dim,
- disordered,
- distant,
- drawling,
- drawly,
- dysphonic,
- equivocal,
- faint,
- faint-voiced,
- feeble,
- filmy,
- foggy,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- gentle,
- guttural,
- half-heard,
- half-seen,
- half-visible,
- harsh,
- hawking,
- hazy,
- hit-or-miss,
- hoarse,
- ill-defined,
- illegible,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- inarticulate,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconspicuous,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indiscernible,
- indistinctive,
- indistinguishable,
- inexact,
- inseparable,
- interchangeable,
- lax,
- lisping,
- loose,
- low,
- low-profile,
- merely glimpsed,
- mispronounced,
- misty,
- muddy,
- muffled,
- murky,
- murmured,
- muzzy,
- nasal,
- nebulous,
- nonspecific,
- obscure,
- opaque,
- orderless,
- out of focus,
- pale,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- quavering,
- random,
- scarcely heard,
- semivisible,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- shapeless,
- snuffling,
- soft,
- soft-sounding,
- soft-voiced,
- standard,
- stereotyped,
- stifled,
- stochastic,
- strangled,
- subaudible,
- subdued,
- sweeping,
- thick,
- throaty,
- transcendent,
- tremulous,
- twangy,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- undifferentiated,
- undiscriminated,
- undistinguishable,
- undistinguished,
- uniform,
- unintelligible,
- unplain,
- unrecognizable,
- unspecified,
- vague,
- veiled,
- velar,
- weak,
- weak-voiced,
- whispered,
- without distinction