The union went out on a strike for an indefinite period.
Source: tatoeba (273962)
Indefinite
//ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪt//
Synonyms for "indefinite" (161 found)
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Closest matches (33)
Strong matches (48)
Related words (80)
inexplicitinfiniteinformintangiblekaleidoscopiclaxlimitlesslooselow profilelow-profilelumpenmeagremeasurelessmerely glimpsedmistymootmystifyingneutralnoncommittalnondescript
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nonspecificobscureoneopaqueorderlessout of focuspalepermanentpuzzlingrandomsemivisibleshadowed forthshadowyshadyshapelessshilly-shallyingstochasticsub judicesweepingunboundeduncharacterizedunclearuncountableuncountedundecidedundefinableundefinedundestinedundestroyableundeterminedundifferentiatedunerasableunfixedunknownunlimitedunmeasuredunorderedunorganizedunplainunrecognizableunresolvedunsettledunspecificunspecifiedunstableunsurevacillatingvagueveiledwaveringweakwidewishy-washy
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Antonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
12 entrieshas context
3 entriesrelated to
13 entriessimilar
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
78 translations across 24 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- نَكِرَة adj ((linguistics) designating an unspecified or unidentified person or thing)
Bulgarian
4 entries- неограничен adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- неопределен adj (undecided or uncertain)
- неопределен adj (of an integral: without specified limits)
- неопределителен adj ((linguistics) designating an unspecified or unidentified person or thing)
Catalan
4 entries- indefinit adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- indefinit adj (vague or unclear)
- indefinit adj (undecided or uncertain)
- indefinit adj (of an integral: without specified limits)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 不定 adj (of an integral: without specified limits)
Czech
3 entries- neurčitý adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- neurčitý adj (vague or unclear)
- neurčitý adj (of an integral: without specified limits)
Danish
4 entries- ubestemt adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- ubestemt adj (undecided or uncertain)
- ubestemt adj (of an integral: without specified limits)
- uklar adj (vague or unclear)
Finnish
4 entries- epämääräinen adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- epämääräinen adj (vague or unclear)
- epämääräinen adj (undecided or uncertain)
- epävarma adj (undecided or uncertain)
German
4 entries- unbegrenzt adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- unbestimmt adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- unbestimmt adj (of an integral: without specified limits)
- unbestimmt adj ((linguistics) designating an unspecified or unidentified person or thing)
Greek
4 entries- ακαθόριστος adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- ακαθόριστος adj (undecided or uncertain)
- αόριστος adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- αόριστος adj (vague or unclear)
Hungarian
4 entries- bizonytalan adj (vague or unclear)
- bizonytalan adj (undecided or uncertain)
- határozatlan adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- határozatlan adj (of an integral: without specified limits)
Italian
3 entries- indefinito adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- indefinito adj (vague or unclear)
- indefinito adj (undecided or uncertain)
Japanese
1 entries- 不定 adj (of an integral: without specified limits)
Latin
1 entries- indēfīnītus adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
Latvian
1 entries- nenoteikts adj (undecided or uncertain)
Navajo
2 entries- haashį́į́ adj (vague or unclear)
- haashį́į́ adj (undecided or uncertain)
Occitan
1 entries- indefinit adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- onbestemt adj (vague or unclear)
Polish
4 entries- bezterminowy adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- nieograniczony adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- nieokreślony adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- nieokreślony adj (vague or unclear)
Romansch
1 entries- indefinit adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
Russian
4 entries- безграни́чный adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- бесконе́чный adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- неограни́ченный adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- неопределённый adj (vague or unclear)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- neodređen adj ((linguistics) designating an unspecified or unidentified person or thing)
- неодређен adj ((linguistics) designating an unspecified or unidentified person or thing)
Spanish
1 entries- indefinido adj ((linguistics) designating an unspecified or unidentified person or thing)
Swedish
4 entries- obestämd adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
- obestämd adj (undecided or uncertain)
- obestämd adj (of an integral: without specified limits)
- obestämd adj ((linguistics) designating an unspecified or unidentified person or thing)
Tagalog
1 entries- dituring adj (without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
"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)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.