英语词汇“indistinct”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

indistinct

/ɪndɪˈstɪŋkt

adjective

Not clear or sharply defined: his speech was slurred and indistinct...

How vague and indistinct and undefined the ideas of most men are upon the subject!
First we see a blur on a snowy landscape, followed by an indistinct grey shadow hovering beyond the window of the child's bedroom.
By night, strange, murky, shady, characters emerge from the indistinct, nebulous corners.

Synonyms

blurred, out of focus, fuzzy, hazy, misty, foggy, cloudy, shadowy, smoky, dim, nebulous;

unclear, obscure, vague, faint, indefinite, indistinguishable, barely perceptible, undefined, lacking definition, hard to see, hard to make out

archaic blear

rare obfuscated, nebulose

indecipherable, illegible, barely legible, unreadable, unintelligible, unfathomable, hard to read, hard to make out;

undefined, ill-defined, lacking definition, formless, indeterminate;

pale, faded, smudged

informal as clear as mud

muffled, muted, dull, low, quiet, soft, faint, weak, feeble, inaudible, scarcely audible, scarcely perceptible, hard to hear, hard to make out;

muttered, mumbled, stifled, strangled, smothered, suppressed

Derivatives

indistinctly

/ˌɪndɪsˈtɪŋktli

/ adverb ...

Throughout this piece bear in mind that my interlocutor mumbled indistinctly, and therefore I had to ask him to repeat everything.
‘Neurotic behaviors were conceived as continuous with normal behaviors, the two blurring indistinctly into each other,’ he writes.
Sometimes she speaks indistinctly and we put the words together ourselves; sometimes we can't make out what she's saying or the words don't make sense.

indistinctness

/ˌɪndɪˈstɪŋktnəs

/ noun ...

With the world moving faster than internet shares on a trading screen, the danger of slipping into the void of indistinctness is greater than ever.
There is without doubt a certain indistinctness to Vermeer's handling of paint in many passages, and a frequent blurring of the boundaries between areas of colour.
There were better prints, from a technical point of view, in the show, but the hazy indistinctness of this one seemed to literalize its distance from us in time.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin indistinctus, from in- 'not' + distinctus 'separated, distinguished' (see distinct).

单词	indistinct
释义	indistinct /ɪndɪˈstɪŋkt / adjective Not clear or sharply defined: his speech was slurred and indistinct... How vague and indistinct and undefined the ideas of most men are upon the subject! First we see a blur on a snowy landscape, followed by an indistinct grey shadow hovering beyond the window of the child's bedroom. By night, strange, murky, shady, characters emerge from the indistinct, nebulous corners. Synonyms blurred, out of focus, fuzzy, hazy, misty, foggy, cloudy, shadowy, smoky, dim, nebulous; unclear, obscure, vague, faint, indefinite, indistinguishable, barely perceptible, undefined, lacking definition, hard to see, hard to make out archaic blear rare obfuscated, nebulose indecipherable, illegible, barely legible, unreadable, unintelligible, unfathomable, hard to read, hard to make out; undefined, ill-defined, lacking definition, formless, indeterminate; pale, faded, smudged informal as clear as mud muffled, muted, dull, low, quiet, soft, faint, weak, feeble, inaudible, scarcely audible, scarcely perceptible, hard to hear, hard to make out; muttered, mumbled, stifled, strangled, smothered, suppressed Derivatives indistinctly /ˌɪndɪsˈtɪŋktli / adverb ... Throughout this piece bear in mind that my interlocutor mumbled indistinctly, and therefore I had to ask him to repeat everything. ‘Neurotic behaviors were conceived as continuous with normal behaviors, the two blurring indistinctly into each other,’ he writes. Sometimes she speaks indistinctly and we put the words together ourselves; sometimes we can't make out what she's saying or the words don't make sense. indistinctness /ˌɪndɪˈstɪŋktnəs / noun ... With the world moving faster than internet shares on a trading screen, the danger of slipping into the void of indistinctness is greater than ever. There is without doubt a certain indistinctness to Vermeer's handling of paint in many passages, and a frequent blurring of the boundaries between areas of colour. There were better prints, from a technical point of view, in the show, but the hazy indistinctness of this one seemed to literalize its distance from us in time. Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin indistinctus, from in- 'not' + distinctus 'separated, distinguished' (see distinct).
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