Indeterminate
[adj] 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
[adj] not leading to a definite ending or result; "an indeterminate campaign"
[adj] not capable of being determined; "an indeterminate number of plant species in the jungle"
[adj] 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"
[adj] (botany) having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex; "an indeterminate stem"
[adj] of uncertain or ambiguous nature; "the equivocal (or indeterminate) objects painted by surrealists"
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Synonyms
ambiguous, cost-plus, equivocal, inconclusive, indeterminable, obscure, open-ended, racemose, unclear, undeterminable, undetermined, vague
Related Terms
abstract, accidental, adventitious, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, baggy, bland, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, casual, causeless, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, clear as mud, cloudy, collective, confused, contingent,