Indefinite /(?)/
In·def·i·nite
Indefinite
a.
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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.
It were to be wished that . . . men would leave off that indefinite way of vouching, “the chymists say this,” or “the chymists affirm that.”
The time of this last is left indefinite.
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Having no determined or certain limits; large and unmeasured, though not infinite; unlimited; as, indefinite space; the indefinite extension of a straight line.
Though it is not infinite, it may be indefinite; though it is not boundless in itself, it may be so to human comprehension.
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Boundless; infinite. [R.]
Indefinite and omnipresent God, Inhabiting eternity.
- Too numerous or variable to make a particular enumeration important; -- said of the parts of a flower, and the like. Also, indeterminate. (Bot.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Indefinite article
- the word a or an, used with nouns to denote any one of a common or general class.
- Indefinite inflorescence
- See Indeterminate inflorescence, under Indeterminate.
- Indefinite proposition
- a statement whose subject is a common term, with nothing to indicate distribution or nondistribution; as, Man is mortal.
- Indefinite term
- a negative term; as, the not-good.