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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not definitive; indefinite.

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Examples

  • GREENFIELD: In other words, nobody - what we now have is further definitive words on how indefinitive the vote in Florida is.

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: Presidential Election Still in Doubt; Result Teeters on Florida - November 8, 2000 2000

  • But the shadow was vague, and formless, and indefinitive, and was the shadow neither of man nor God — neither God of Greece, nor God of Chaldæa, nor any Egyptian God.

    Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1840

  • French by the Declaration of 1783 had been intended to be exclusive within the prescribed district, the terms used for defining such right would assuredly have been more ample and specific than they are found to be in that document; for in no other similar instrument which has ever come under the knowledge of the British Government is so important a concession as an exclusive privilege of this description accorded in terms so loose and indefinitive.

    The Story of Newfoundland Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead 1901

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