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单词 ill-defined
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Definition of ill-defined in English:

ill-defined

adjective
  • Not having a clear description or limits; vague.

    ill-defined concepts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Official favour is still needed in a country with a shaky legal system, ill-defined property rights and political protection that can be abruptly removed.
    • And there is an air of ill-defined frustration about him.
    • Scotland remains vague and ill-defined in the US consciousness.
    • It is therefore of some concern that the management failures identified by the Scottish expert group appear to be ill-defined and ambiguous.
    • Offutt provides a weak and ill-defined concept of region as the basis for her placement of Saltillo.
    • They pass the time in a hazy half-light, drifting from one ill-defined moment to the next in works deeply suspicious of form and language.
    • No, he favors a vague and ill-defined form of collective ownership that the workers will figure out as they bumble and stumble along towards bankruptcy.
    • Until now, the multiverse was a hazy, ill-defined concept-little more than a philosophical trick.
    • The weather being exactly the same every day out here, means that days become ill-defined and merge into a stream of time, rather than form days, weeks, and months.
    • This would have killed two birds with one stone, combining a focusless programme looking for a theme with an ill-defined product looking for an identity.
    • The preamble is all about metaphysical, ill-defined concepts, as Dr Mapp pointed out.
    • I'd rather discuss specific authors and their ideas, rather than some vague, ill-defined movement.
    • This ill-defined and much-abused concept is at base a simple one.
    • The third major problem with the challenge as it stands depends on people making a voluntary sacrifice towards a nebulous and ill-defined common cause.
    • We also believe absolutely that there is no place in this day and age for an ill-defined concept of spirituality.
    • This isn't a struggle against some distant, ill-defined enemy.
    • In the Collins Review it's presented as a vague and ill-defined feel-good motherhood concept.
    • It's a war unlike any war that's gone before, with ill-defined enemies and with no clear campaign methodology on which to call.
    • Comity, however, is an ill-defined concept, and for that reason can be arbitrary in its application.
    • Instead it recognises ‘signs and symptoms of ill-defined conditions’ for which veterans can claim disability pensions.
    Synonyms
    vague, indistinct, unclear, imprecise, inexplicit
    blurry, blurred, fuzzy, hazy, woolly, nebulous, shadowy, dim
 
 

Definition of ill-defined in US English:

ill-defined

adjective
  • Not having a clear description or limits; vague.

    ill-defined concepts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And there is an air of ill-defined frustration about him.
    • This isn't a struggle against some distant, ill-defined enemy.
    • They pass the time in a hazy half-light, drifting from one ill-defined moment to the next in works deeply suspicious of form and language.
    • I'd rather discuss specific authors and their ideas, rather than some vague, ill-defined movement.
    • It is therefore of some concern that the management failures identified by the Scottish expert group appear to be ill-defined and ambiguous.
    • We also believe absolutely that there is no place in this day and age for an ill-defined concept of spirituality.
    • No, he favors a vague and ill-defined form of collective ownership that the workers will figure out as they bumble and stumble along towards bankruptcy.
    • Official favour is still needed in a country with a shaky legal system, ill-defined property rights and political protection that can be abruptly removed.
    • This would have killed two birds with one stone, combining a focusless programme looking for a theme with an ill-defined product looking for an identity.
    • This ill-defined and much-abused concept is at base a simple one.
    • In the Collins Review it's presented as a vague and ill-defined feel-good motherhood concept.
    • Instead it recognises ‘signs and symptoms of ill-defined conditions’ for which veterans can claim disability pensions.
    • The preamble is all about metaphysical, ill-defined concepts, as Dr Mapp pointed out.
    • It's a war unlike any war that's gone before, with ill-defined enemies and with no clear campaign methodology on which to call.
    • The weather being exactly the same every day out here, means that days become ill-defined and merge into a stream of time, rather than form days, weeks, and months.
    • Comity, however, is an ill-defined concept, and for that reason can be arbitrary in its application.
    • Offutt provides a weak and ill-defined concept of region as the basis for her placement of Saltillo.
    • Scotland remains vague and ill-defined in the US consciousness.
    • Until now, the multiverse was a hazy, ill-defined concept-little more than a philosophical trick.
    • The third major problem with the challenge as it stands depends on people making a voluntary sacrifice towards a nebulous and ill-defined common cause.
    Synonyms
    vague, indistinct, unclear, imprecise, inexplicit
 
 
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