Indefinable \In`de*fin"a*ble\, a.
Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable. --Bp.
Reynolds.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
indefinable
adj 1: not capable of being precisely or readily described; not
easily put into words; "an indefinable feeling of
terror"; "an abstract concept that seems indefinable"
[syn: undefinable]
2: defying expression or description; "indefinable yearnings";
"indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy";
"inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness";
"unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor"
[syn: indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, untellable,
unutterable]
WordNet (r) 2.0
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "indefinable":
aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad,
chance, chancy, chaotic, confused, disordered,
enwrapped in mystery, foggy, fuzzy, general, hazy, hit-or-miss,
ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent,
incommunicable, indecisive, indefinite, indescribable,
indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, ineffable, inenarrable,
inexact, inexplicable, inexpressible, inextricable, innominable,
insoluble, insolvable, lax, loose, mysterious, mystic,
noncommunicable, nonspecific, obscure, orderless, random,
shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, stochastic, sweeping,
unaccountable, unclear, undefinable, undefined, undestined,
undetermined, unexplainable, uninterpretable, unmentionable,
unnameable, unplain, unsolvable, unspeakable, unspecified,
untellable, unutterable, unwhisperable, vague, veiled
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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