noun
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(grammar) A word or phrase that designates an unspecified or unidentified person or thing or group of persons or things.
adjective
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Without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite.
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Vague or unclear.
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Undecided or uncertain.
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Being an integral without specified limits.
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Designating an unspecified or unidentified person or thing or group of persons or things
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the indefinite article
Examples of indefinite in a Sentence
Rostov still had the same indefinite feeling, as of shame.
The direct action of changed conditions leads to definite or indefinite results.
They preserve their form when dry for an indefinite period.
And those thoughts, though now vague and indefinite, again possessed his soul.
A more rational system of cropping now began to take the place of the thriftless and barbarous practice of sowing successive crops of corn until the land was utterly exhausted, and then leaving it foul with weeds to recover its power by an indefinite period of rest.
I guess it's indefinite.
The name of Catholic Epistles is given to those letters (two of Peter, three of John, one of James, one of Jude) incorporated in the New Testament which (except 2 and 3 John) are not, like those of St Paul, addressed to particular individuals or churches, but to a larger and more indefinite circle of readers.
The national hope was relegated to an indefinite future and to another sphere.
There are considerable spaces where the strike, or axis, of the main ranges is transverse to the water-parting, which is then represented by intermediate highlands forming lacustrine regions with an indefinite watershed.
Beyond this it is indefinite.
It was a wide and indefinite tract.
The references by Origen, Novatian, and later Fathers are somewhat indefinite.
The term light railways is somewhat vague and indefinite, and therefore to give a precise definition of its significance is not an easy matter.
Between the Russian Pamirs and Chinese Turkestan the rugged line of the Sarikol range intervenes, the actual dividing line being still indefinite.
At least their purpose was indefinite compared with that which they now have before them.
Since, however, the steppe edge on the east is somewhat indefinite, some early Moslem and other geographers have included all the Hamad in Syria, making of the latter a blunt-headed triangle with a base some 700 m.
The processes of soap manufacture may be classified (a) according to the temperatures employed into (I) cold processes and (2) boiling processes, or (b) according to the nature of the starting material - acid or oil and fat - and the relative amount of alkali, into (1) direct saturation of the fatty acid with alkali, (2) treating the fat with a definite amount of alkali with no removal of unused lye, (3) treating the fat with an indefinite amount of alkali, also with no separation of unused lye, (4) treating the fat with an indefinite amount of alkali with separation of waste lye.
At first held at any of the local shrines, such as Gilgal, Bethel, Shiloh, as well as Jerusalem, it was held at an indefinite date during the harvest in the fall of the year.
He objected to the large and indefinite powers given by the completed Constitution to Congress, so he joined with Patrick Henry in opposing its ratification in the Virginia Convention (1788).
The present influence of Wagnerian harmony is, then, somewhat indefinite, since the most important real phenomena of later music indicate a revolt both from it and from earlier classical methods.
The conclusions deducible from their anthropological features - apart from the general difficulty of arriving at safe conclusions on this ground alone, on account of the variability of the ethnological type under various conditions of life - are also rather indefinite.
Some are globular and others are rod-shaped; they may be grouped in clusters, stars, rosettes, rows, chains or swarms of indefinite shape.
The present governing charter was granted by Elizabeth in 1596, and instituted a governing body of a mayor, fourteen masters or councillors, and an indefinite number of burgesses, including a select body called "the Twenty-men."
His powerful scientific imagination enabled him to realize that all the points of a wavefront originate partial waves, the aggregate effect of which is to reconstitute the primary disturbance at the subsequent stages of its advance, thus accomplishing its propagation; so that each primary undulation is the envelope of an indefinite number of secondary undulations.
Pornbal's arrangements extended also to the interior of the country, where he extinguished at once the now indefinite and oppressive claims of the original donatories of the captaincies, and strengthened and enforced the regulations of the mining districts.
The symptoms of cancer of the stomach are apt to be indefinite (for many weeks or months).
Among the striking peculiarities of the language are the definite and indefinite forms of the active verb, e.g.
The method of resolution just described is the simplest, but it is only one of an indefinite number that might be proposed, and which are all equally legitimate, so long as the question is regarded as a merely mathematical one, without reference to the physical properties of actual screens.
Instead of reducing chaos to order and concentrating his attention, as Brand had done in the Free State, on establishing security and promoting industry, he took up, with all its entanglements, the policy of intrigues with native chiefs beyond the border and the dream of indefinite expansion.
One of the oldest of Venezuelan industries, the Margarita pearl fisheries, was prohibited in 1909 for an indefinite time because of the threatened extinction of the oyster beds.
In the case of iron, ferric sulphate, Fe2(S04) 3, is produced; tin yields a somewhat indefinite sulphate of its oxide Sn02.
Yet the number of peasant-proprietors had diminished, while the obligations of the peasantry generally had increased; and, still worse, their obligations were vexatiously indefinite, varying from year to year and even from month to month.
The league embraced an indefinite number of city-states which maintained their internal independence practically undiminished, and through their several magistrates, assemblies and law-courts exercised all traditional powers of self-government.
Subsequent cultures or, as they are called, " subcultures," may be made by inoculating fresh tubes, and in this way growth may be maintained often for an indefinite period.
The Canzoniere is therefore one long melodious monody poured from the poet's soul, with the indefinite form of a beautiful woman seated in a lovely landscape, a perpetual object of delightful contemplation.
From the combination of these considerations, it will be seen that the farthest date to which documentary or other records extend is now generally regarded by anthropologists as but the earliest distinctly visible point of the historic period, beyond which stretches back a vast indefinite series of prehistoric ages.
The flowers are regular and rather showy, generally with three greenish sepals, followed in regular succession by three white or purplish petals, six to indefinite stamens and six to indefinite free carpels.
In 2005, its members announced that the band was on "indefinite hiatus."
Agency contracts may have a definite or indefinite duration.
Language goes no further in this direction, but the mathematical symbolism of the differential calculus allows of an indefinite extension of this procedure.
The review rightly identifies indefinite suspension as an excessively harsh penalty for a doctor who is sick.
It is difficult to escape the conclusion that Government policy in this matter now simply consists of indefinite indecision.
The Home Office either grants indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) or Humanitarian Protection to the asylum seeker.
An application for nationality can only be made after a person had indefinite Leave to Remain for a period of at least 12 months.
It's a way of extending the life of games for an almost indefinite period of time.
A soul is then divined behind that rather indefinite form.
The only aspect of a re-entry ban which received support was the potentially indefinite ban on those constituting a serious security risk.
But that description does not describe; it is too vague, too general, too indefinite.
The flexibility of the TWOD is, however, not indefinite.
Or perhaps now indefinite internment without trial if one happens not to be a British citizen.