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inconclusive, a.|ɪnkənˈkluːsɪv|
[in-3.]
1. Not conclusive in argument or evidence; that does not bring to an end (a doubt, dispute, or inquiry); not decisive or convincing.
1690[implied in inconclusiveness]. 1707A. Collins Reply Clarke's Def. R., The author of the objection to that argument still thinks it inconclusive, and proposes to show its inconclusiveness in the following papers. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 969 The experiments of Duhamel and Tillet are equally inconclusive. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. xi. vi. (1864) VI. 108 Long and inconclusive debates took place on the legality of a Papal abdication. 1879Froude Cæsar xi. 120 When evidence is inconclusive, probability becomes argument.
b. Given to inconclusion; undecided.
1836Sir H. Taylor Statesman xxi. 142 He whose mind is not seasonably inconclusive, and cannot bear with a reasonable term of suspense, will either get wrong, or get right more tardily by means of after-thought and correction.
2. Not conclusive in action; reaching no final result or producing no conclusive effect.
1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. I. 563 Even his Indian operations..are so far from displaying any signs of system or combination, that their desultory and inconclusive nature would lead us to deny him a comprehensive intellect. |