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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abstract, aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, baffling, baggy, bewildering, bland, blear, bleared, bleary, blobby, blurred, blurry, boundless, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, collective, confused, confusing, cryptic, dark, dim, disordered, disorderly, endless, enduring, equivocal, faint, featureless, feeble, filmy, foggy, formless, fuzzy, general, generalized, generic, half-seen, half-visible, hazy, hesitant, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, immeasurable, imprecise, inaccurate, incalculable, inchoate, incoherent, inconspicuous, inconstant, indecisive, indefinable, indelible, indestructible, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, ineffaceable, ineradicable, inexact, inexplicit, infinite, inform, kaleidoscopic, lax, limitless, loose, low-profile, lumpen, measureless, merely glimpsed, misty, mystifying, nebulous, neutral, nondescript, nonspecific, obscure, orderless, out of focus, pale, permanent, puzzling, random, semivisible, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, shilly-shallying, stochastic, sub judice, sweeping, unbounded, uncertain, uncharacterized, unclear, uncountable, uncounted, undecided, undefinable, undefined, undestined, undestroyable, undetermined, undifferentiated, unerasable, unfixed, unknown, unlimited, unmeasured, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unrecognizable, unsettled, unspecific, unspecified, unsure, vacillating, vague, veiled, wavering, weak, wide, wishy-washy
Dictionary Results for indefinite:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
indefinite
    adj 1: vague or not clearly defined or stated; "must you be so
           indefinite?"; "amorphous blots of color having vague and
           indefinite edges"; "he would not answer so indefinite a
           proposal" [ant: definite]
    2: not decided or not known; "were indefinite about their
       plans"; "plans are indefinite"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Indefinite \In*def"i*nite\, a. [L. indefinitus. See In- not,
   and Definite.]
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   1. Not definite; not limited, defined, or specified; not
      explicit; not determined or fixed upon; not precise;
      uncertain; vague; confused; obscure; as, an indefinite
      time, plan, etc.
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            It were to be wished that . . . men would leave off
            that indefinite way of vouching, "the chymists say
            this," or "the chymists affirm that." --Boyle.
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            The time of this last is left indefinite. --Dryden.
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   2. Having no determined or certain limits; large and
      unmeasured, though not infinite; unlimited; as, indefinite
      space; the indefinite extension of a straight line.
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            Though it is not infinite, it may be indefinite;
            though it is not boundless in itself, it may be so
            to human comprehension.               --Spectator.
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   3. Boundless; infinite. [R.]
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            Indefinite and omnipresent God,
            Inhabiting eternity.                  --W. Thompson
                                                  (1745).
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   4. (Bot.) Too numerous or variable to make a particular
      enumeration important; -- said of the parts of a flower,
      and the like. Also, indeterminate.
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   Indefinite article (Gram.), the word a or an, used with
      nouns to denote any one of a common or general class.

   Indefinite inflorescence. (Bot.) See Indeterminate
      inflorescence, under Indeterminate.

   Indefinite proposition (Logic), a statement whose subject
      is a common term, with nothing to indicate distribution or
      nondistribution; as, Man is mortal.

   Indefinite term (Logic), a negative term; as, the not-good.

   Syn: Inexplicit; vague; uncertain; unsettled; indeterminate;
        loose; equivocal; inexact; approximate.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
INDEFINITE. That which is undefined; uncertain.



4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
INDEFINITE, NUMBER. A number which may be increased or diminished at 
pleasure. 
     2. When a corporation is composed of an indefinite number of persons, 
any number of them consisting of a majority of those present may do any act 
unless it be otherwise regulated by the charter or by-laws. See Definite 
number. 



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