Indeterminate
[,ɪndɪ'tɜːmɪnət] or ['ɪndɪ'tɝmənət]
Definition
(adj.) not leading to a definite ending or result; 'an indeterminate campaign' .
(adj.) not capable of being determined; 'the indeterminate number of plant species in the jungle' .
(adj.) not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance; 'of indeterminate age'; 'a zillion is a large indeterminate number'; 'an indeterminate point of law'; 'the influence of environment is indeterminate'; 'an indeterminate future' .
(adj.) having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex; 'an indeterminate stem' .
(adj.) of uncertain or ambiguous nature; 'the equivocal (or indeterminate) objects painted by surrealists' .
Typist: Stanley--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years.
Inputed by George
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Indefinite, unfixed, uncertain, not settled, not precise.
Edited by Clifford
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DETERMINATE]
Editor: Tamara
Examples
- Possibly they pronounced their consonants very hard and had rather indeterminate vowels, as is said to be still the case with tribes of South Arabia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This implies that the situation as it stands is, either in fact or to us, incomplete and hence indeterminate. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Editor: Tamara