undefined
/ʌndɪˈfʌɪnd
/adjective
Not clear or defined: undefined areas of jurisdiction he felt an undefined longing...
- How vague and indistinct and undefined the ideas of most men are upon the subject!
- They can latch onto a rhetoric of ‘social justice,’ ever vague and undefined.
- In this latest reply, however, you seem to be shifting the definition a bit to make it more vague and undefined.
Synonyms
unspecified, unexplained, non-specific, unspecific, indeterminate, undetermined, unfixed, unsettled;
unclear, woolly, imprecise, inexact, indefinite, vague
indistinct, indefinite, formless, indistinguishable, barely perceptible, vague, hazy, misty, shadowy, nebulous, dim, obscure, blurred, blurry, bleary, out of focus
Derivatives
undefinable
- In both traditions it is undefinable and unexplainable, elusive, frustratingly near and far, always so close yet just outside intellect's reach.
- The best journalists are often those who bring the undefinable, the intangible, to their work.
- While they haven't completely gone in a new direction, their sound just continues to evolve in an increasingly complex, and previously undefinable way.
undefinably
- Overall, there's an undefinably exotic texture that seems somehow strange and familiar at the same time.
- The fish was fresh, but there was something undefinably wrong with the rice, and all the sushi was just shoddily made.
- Any one paragraph of its output could be mistaken for human, but there was something undefinably strange about it; he could tell what the computer was arguing, but not why.