Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not clearly or sharply delineated: an indistinct pattern; indistinct shapes in the gloom.
- adj. Faint; dim: indistinct stars.
- adj. Hazy; vague: an indistinct memory; an indistinct notion of how to proceed.
- adj. Difficult to understand or make out: indistinct speech.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not distinct to the senses; not clearly distinguishable or perceptible; not to be discriminated; confused; blurred; obscure: as, indistinct outlines; an indistinct sound.
- Not distinct to the mind; not clearly defined as to parts or details; indefinite; confused: as, indistinct notions. See clear, 6.
- Not giving or having distinct impressions, images, or perceptions; dim; dull; imperfect: as, indistinct vision; an indistinct remembrance.
- Synonyms Undefined, indistinguishable, dim, vague, uncertain, ambiguous.
Wiktionary
- adj. of an image, etc. not clearly defined or not having a sharp outline; faint or dim
- adj. of a thought, idea etc hazy or vague
- adj. of speech difficult to understand
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not distinct or distinguishable; not separate in such a manner as to be perceptible by itself.
- adj. Obscure to the mind or senses; not clear; not definite; confused; imperfect; faint.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand
Examples
“Carey wants to have it both ways: it is because literature can "communicate" more effectively and it can also remain "indistinct" in the manner common to all the arts that it is ultimately the most valuable of the arts.”
“In addition, there are approximately three million Burakumin “hamlet people”, who are culturally, ethnically, and religiously indistinct from the Japanese—and yet the Japanese consider them a separate group and discriminate against them.”
“Unlike the distinct representation of a triangle whereby the intellect distinguishes parts and aspects of the triangle from one another, a sensuous representation is clear but indistinct, that is to say, to have a sensuous representation is to perceive something without intellectually distinguishing its parts or aspects.”
“No. These are the most difficult Olympic Games in which we will participate, not only because we are going to compete in sports -- they will be difficult sports-wise -- but because of the conditions and the country where those Olympic Games are going to be held, under [word indistinct] conditions against our country and our delegation.”
“It is with this spirit that we want you to struggle, all of you, in these Olympic Games that will be so difficult, which will take place in the heart of the Empire that [word indistinct] us, in the heart of the monster.”
“Time, also, makes greater demands on our [word indistinct].”
“[Castro] They mean a lot of things, 100,000 times what they could mean [word indistinct].”
“You all know that in places where trees are cut down and burned, a [word indistinct] grows that was known during the war as [word indistinct].”
“[Castro] I am usually reading. [word indistinct] the more papers I have, the more I want to read a good book.”
“I believe that with the revolution the use of fingerprints is reserved for identification cards of some [word indistinct] whether for voting or for signing a piece of paper, and one had to look for a stamp pad.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘indistinct’.
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Writing
graphoanalysis, agraphia, agraphic, anorthography, logagraphia, cipher, code, inscribe, penmanship, cursive, Palmer method, calligraphy and 100 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
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WF - daffynitions
A daffynition (derived from daffy and definition) is a pun format involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word (or group of words).
Sourc...apéritif, avoidable, buccaneer, dandelion, decadent, devastation, dilate, fortunate, impolite, indistinct, information, innuendoes and 10 more...
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maygra
apropos, advantageous, perception, discombobulated, adumbrate, apogee, perihelion, mortmain, solitudinous, mediastinus, asumbrative, traveler and 498 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL I
iconoclast, idiosyncrasy, ignoble, ignominious, illicit, illusory, illustrious, imbibe, imbue, immaculate, immaterial, immolate and 155 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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"Words, words, words."
abase, abject, abstruse, adjutant, altercation, altruistic, angst, anodyne, anomie, ape, apprehensive, aquiline and 310 more...
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jm3's Words
extant, vadis, fruit-forward, flossy, tout court, oubliette, ganef, demimonde, cuvee, indistinct, tractable, aegis and 15 more...
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