Synonyms for Indefinite

Synonyms for "indefinite" (173 found)

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Closest matches (35)

abstract aleatoric aleatory ambiguous amorphic amorphous anarchic baffling baggy bewildering bland blear bleared bleary blobby blurred blurry boundless broad chance

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chancy chaotic characterless collective confused confusing cryptic dark dim disordered disorderly doubtful dreamy

Adjective(2 words)

ambiguousambiguous justification

Strong matches (52)

endless enduring equivocal faint featureless feeble filmy fluid foggy formless fuzzy general generalized generic half-seen half-visible hazy hesitanthit-or-missill-defined

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Adjective(1 words)

grayest

Adjective(1 words)

indistinct

Related words (86)

lumpen meagre measurelessmerely glimpsedmisty moot mystifying nebulous neutral nondescript nonspecific obscure opaque orderlessout of focuspale permanent puzzling random semivisible

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Noun(4 words)

most amorphousopen endedopen ended directionsunbounded period

Adjective(18 words)

open ended problemopen-ended projectperpetual unclearunclear dictionundefined undetermined unfixedunlimited durationunshapen unspecifiedunspecified programvaguevague descriptionvague modifiervague reasoningvaguer vaguest

Adjective(1 words)

vague

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

4 entries

adjective descriptormathematical descriptormodifier

More specific

8 entries

ambiguous termfree variableindeterminate variableundefined valueundetermined parameterunknown quantityunspecified parametervague expression

Collocations

6 entries

indefinite articleindefinite durationindefinite integralindefinite periodindefinite scopeunknown quantity

Inflections

2 entries

more indefinitemost indefinite

Derivations

3 entries

indefinitely indefiniteness undefinedness

Antonyms

1 entries

definite

similar

11 entries

coy indecisive indistinct nebulous noncommittal one uncertain unclear undefined unfixed vague

Sample sentences

16 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The union went out on a strike for an indefinite period.

Source: tatoeba (273962)

"Mata" means "eye" in Malay, "mata mata" is "an indefinite number of eyes"--or the police.

Source: tatoeba (2040115)

In Esperanto there is no indefinite and only one definite article.

Source: tatoeba (2758090)

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Source: tatoeba (3070568)

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Indefinite