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Defenition of the word indeterminate

    • Defenition of the word indeterminate

      • not leading to a definite ending or result; "an indeterminate campaign"
      • not capable of being determined; "an indeterminate number of plant species in the jungle"
      • (botany) having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex; "an indeterminate stem"
      • of uncertain or ambiguous nature; "the equivocal (or indeterminate) objects painted by surrealists"
      • not clearly understood or expressed; "an indeterminate turn of phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard; "their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"- P.A.Sorokin; "vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science"- John Locke
      • not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance; "of indeterminate age"; "a zillion is a large indeterminate number"; "an indeterminate point of law"; "the influence of environment is indeterminate"; "an indeterminate future"
      • not capable of being determined; "the indeterminate number of plant species in the jungle"
      • having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex; "an indeterminate stem"
      • not leading to a definite ending or result
      • not capable of being determined
      • not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance
      • having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex
      • of uncertain or ambiguous nature

    Synonyms for the word indeterminate

      • obscure
      • undetermined
      • vague

    Similar words in the indeterminate

      • ambiguous
      • cost-plus
      • equivocal
      • inconclusive
      • indeterminable
      • open-ended
      • racemose
      • uncertain
      • unclear
      • undeterminable

    Antonyms for the word indeterminate

      • determinate

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