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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

Not clearly defined or determined; vague.

e.g. The company's indefinite delay in responding to our proposal is frustrating.

(adjective)

not clear in meaning or details or an unidentified generic person or thing;

e.g. Some stories are told with an indefinite narrator.

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Similar Words

Blear

Bleary

Blurry

Bottomless

Boundless

Endless

Exhaustless

Faint

Fathomless

Foggy

Fuzzy

Gauzy

Hazy

Horizonless

Illimitable

Immeasurable

Incomputable

Inconclusive

Indeterminate

Indiscernible

Indistinct

Indistinguishable

Inexplicit

Infinite

Measureless

Misty

Murky

Muzzy

Nebulous

Nonobvious

Obscurant

Obscure

Open-ended

Pale

Shadowy

Sketchy

Unassembled

Unbounded

Unclear

Uncompleted

Undefinable

Undefined

Undetermined

Unfathomable

Unknowable

Unlimited

Unmeasured

Unordered

Unspecific

Vague

Vaguely

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Opposite Words

Accurate

Accurately

Apparent

Bald

Bald-faced

Barefaced

Black-and-white

Blatant

Bounded

Bright-line

Broad

Candid

Clean-cut

Clear

Clear-cut

Close

Comprehensible

Confined

Decided

Definable

Definite

Definitive

Delicate

Delineated

Determinate

Direct

Distinct

Evident

Exact

Explicit

Explicitly

Express

Final

Fine

Finespun

Finite

Firm

Fixed

Flat

Forthright

Foursquare

Frank

Frozen

Graphic

Hairline

Hard

Hard-and-fast

Honest

Inexpugnable

Intelligible

Knowable

Limited

Lucid

Luculent

Luminous

Manifest

Mathematical

Mensurable

Narrow

Nonadjustable

Nonambiguous

Noncancelable

Nonnegotiable

Nuanced

Numerable

Obvious

Open

Open-and-shut

Openhearted

Outspoken

Overt

Overtly

Palpable

Patent

Pellucid

Perspicuous

Pictorial

Picturesque

Pinpoint

Plain

Plainspoken

Precise

Refined

Restricted

Rigorous

Ringing

Self-explanatory

Set

Shallow

Specific

Spot-on

Stable

Stated

Straight

Straightforward

Strong

Subtle

Superficial

Transparent

Ultraprecise

Unambiguous

Unambivalent

Uncomplicated

Unequivocal

Unguarded

Unmistakable

Visual

Vivid

Well-defined

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Related Words

Abysmal

Ambiguous

Amorphous

Approximate

Arcane

Baffling

Ballpark

Bewildering

Bleary

Blurry

Countless

Cryptic

Dark

Delphic

Dim

Double-edged

Dusky

Elliptical

Enigmatic

Equivocal

Exhaustless

Extensive

Faint

Far-flung

Foggy

Formless

Fuliginous

Gauzy

Gloomy

Hazy

Hieroglyphic

Immense

Impalpable

Imprecise

Inaccurate

Inappreciable

Incalculable

Incomprehensible

Incomputable

Indecipherable

Indeterminate

Indiscernible

Indistinct

Indistinguishable

Inestimable

Inexact

Inexhaustible

Inexplicable

Innumerable

Inscrutable

Intangible

Invisible

Loose

Misty

Murky

Mysterious

Mystic

Nebulous

Obscure

Occult

Omnipresent

Opaque

Perplexing

Puzzling

Shapeless

Squishy

Ubiquitous

Undefinable

Undefined

Unfathomable

Unformed

Unintelligible

Universal

Unmeasured

Unshaped

Unstructured

Vast

Wall-to-wall

Woozy

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