Indefinable

adj, noun

adj, noun ·5 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Anything that cannot be defined.
Adjective
  1. 1
    That which cannot be precisely defined or put into words. not-comparable

    "They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight."

  2. 2
    That which defies description; indescribable. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    not capable of being precisely or readily described; not easily put into words wordnet
  2. 2
    defying expression or description wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
indescribableundefinableundefinedaleatoricaleatoryamorphous

Example

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"It was in mid-summer, when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation."

Etymology

From in- + definable.

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