indeterminate

Speech parts

1. indeterminate - Noun

2. indeterminate - Adjective

3. indeterminate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

undetermined delphic stochastic some general formless unknown neutral uncertain loose ambiguous obscure unlimited vague indefinite
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Antonyms

determinate computable countable given known set
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Phrases with the word

for an indeterminate period indeterminate period clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential indeterminate noun

Examples

Absolute time would exist in a causal structure for which the concept indeterminate as to time order lends to a unique simultaneity, i.e., for which there is no finite interval of time between the departure and return of a first-signal... Hans Reichenbach

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate. Odilon Redon

Science rejects the indeterminate. Claude Bernard

All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way. Bill Bryson

A declaratory sentence can be asserted, because it is an incomplete symbol, of indeterminate modality; while a question, a command, an invective, or any other sentence of fixed intention can no more be asserted than could my act of hewing wood or of drinking tea. Michael Polanyi

To attempt to penetrate through the indeterminate confusion of present tendencies and first efforts in order to foresee the exact forms the new creation will take, would be an effort of very doubtful utility. Sri Aurobindo

Close letter words and terms

indeterminancy principle indeterminant indeterminantly indeterminate noun indeterminate period indeterminate state