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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
E. T. Bell

Meaning of "indefinable" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INDEFINABLE

indefinable  [ˌɪndɪˈfaɪnəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INDEFINABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Indefinable is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INDEFINABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of indefinable in the English dictionary

The definition of indefinable in the dictionary is incapable of being defined or analysed.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INDEFINABLE


assignable
əˈsaɪnəbəl
combinable
kəmˈbaɪnəbəl
confinable
kənˈfaɪnəbəl
confineable
kənˈfaɪnəbəl
definable
dɪˈfaɪnəbəl
divinable
dɪˈvaɪnəbəl
finable
ˈfaɪnəbəl
fineable
ˈfaɪnəbəl
inclinable
ɪnˈklaɪnəbəl
indeclinable
ˌɪndɪˈklaɪnəbəl
minable
ˈmaɪnəbəl
mineable
ˈmaɪnəbəl
opinable
əʊˈpaɪnəbəl
reclinable
rɪˈklaɪnəbəl
refinable
rɪˈfaɪnəbəl
signable
ˈsaɪnəbəl
unassignable
ˌʌnəˈsaɪnəbəl
unconfinable
ˌʌnkənˈfaɪnəbəl
undefinable
ˌʌndɪˈfaɪnəbəl
user-definable
ˈjuːzədɪˈfaɪnəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INDEFINABLE

indefeasibility
indefeasible
indefeasibleness
indefeasibly
indefectibility
indefectible
indefectibly
indefensibility
indefensible
indefensibleness
indefensibly
indefinability
indefinableness
indefinably
indefinite
indefinite article
indefinite integral
indefinite pronoun
indefinitely
indefiniteness

WORDS THAT END LIKE INDEFINABLE

able
abominable
actionable
amenable
attainable
enable
fashionable
imaginable
interminable
objectionable
obtainable
personable
questionable
reasonable
returnable
sustainable
tunable
unable
unimaginable
unreasonable
unsustainable

Synonyms and antonyms of indefinable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INDEFINABLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «indefinable» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of indefinable

Translation of «indefinable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INDEFINABLE

Find out the translation of indefinable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of indefinable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «indefinable» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

说不清
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

indefinible
570 millions of speakers

English

indefinable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अपरिभाष्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تعريفها
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неопределимым
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

indefinível
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অবর্ণনীয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

indéfinissable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak dapat ditentukan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

undefinierbar
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

言い表せない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

한정 할
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Indefinable
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không thể định nghỉa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வர்ணிக்கமுடியாத
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनिश्चित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tarifsiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

indefinibile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieokreślona
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

невизначеним
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inefabil
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απροσδιόριστο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ondefinieerbare
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

odefinierbar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

udefinerbare
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of indefinable

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INDEFINABLE»

The term «indefinable» is normally little used and occupies the 117.841 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INDEFINABLE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about indefinable

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10 QUOTES WITH «INDEFINABLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word indefinable.
1
E. T. Bell
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
2
David Josiah Brewer
The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.
3
Countee Cullen
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.
4
Tommy Lee Jones
I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.
5
Nick Lowe
The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.
6
Erin O'Connor
A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief of a photographer or communicate the vision of a designer - while making whatever she does look utterly effortless and whatever she wears utterly seamless.
7
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are something completely indefinable but which they call 'authentic' or 'natural.'
8
Robert Baldwin Ross
The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.
9
John Russell
What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.
10
George Edward Woodberry
Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INDEFINABLE»

Discover the use of indefinable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to indefinable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Priority in Aristotle's Metaphysics
It might be objected that [5] entails only that particular compounds are definable in one way but indefinable in another. Aristotle does not explicitly argue, however , that universal compounds or matter are definable in one way but indefinable in ...
Michail Peramatzis, Michail M. Peramatzis, 2011
2
A History of Indian Philosophy
x]. Indefinable. Character. of. World-appearance. 46. 1. lying these phenomenal movements can only manifest itself through these which hide it, when corresponding states arise in the antahkarana, and the light of the real shines forth through ...
Surendranath Dasgupta, 1992
3
Notebooks, 1914-1916
One of the most natural attempts at solution consists in regarding "not-p" as "the opposite of p", where then "opposite" would be the indefinable relation. But it is easy to see that every such attempt to replace the ^-functions by descriptions must ...
Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. H. von Wright, G. E. M. Anscombe, 1984
4
Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
CHAPTER I THE DICKENS PERIOD Much of our modern difficulty, in religion and other things, arises merely from this, that we confuse the word " indefinable " with the word " vague." If some one speaks of a spiritual fact as " indefinable " we ...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1906
5
The Semantics of Polysemy: Reading Meaning in English and ...
As pointed out by Goddard (2002: 13), “one can never prove absolutely that any element is indefinable. One can only establish that all apparent avenues for reducing it to combinations of other elements have proved to be deadends.
Nick Riemer, 2005
6
The Mathematical Structure of Stable Physical Systems
Apparently, indefinable randomness and non-linearity cannot be used to describe “from whence” the observed order of the world comes. Furthermore, indefinable randomness and non-linearity has not been able to do so during the 100 years ...
Dr. Martin Concoyle & G.P. Coatmundi, 2014
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Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control: 9th International ...
Let R = {r\, ri, □ □ □ , rs) be a finite partition of S. A set s C s is R-definable if s = \ JrEz r f°r some Z C R. An antichain q G L is indefinable if for every s G q, s is indefinable. Definition 17 [unstable]. A game of imperfect information (S, Sb, Sc, Su, ...
Joao Hespanha, Ashish Tiwari, 2006
8
The Foundations of Mathematics and Other Logical Essays
Thus, although an infinite indefinable class cannot be mentioned by itself, it is nevertheless involved in any statement beginning ' All classes ' or ' There is a class such that ', and if indefinable classes are excluded the meaning of all such  ...
Frank Plumpton Ramsey, Richard Bevan Braithwaite, 2000
9
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
Galsworthy) Indescribable and indefinable may imply to the thing a quality or sometimes the lack of any quality or to the would-be describer or defmer a deficiency (as of perceptiveness, understanding, or language) that makes precise  ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
10
Sugar
Since I have taken my test samples in the last described manner, the figures for the indefinable losses in the diffusion have become different. Either there were no indefinable losses at all or they were less considerable than formerly, ranging  ...
‎1903

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INDEFINABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term indefinable is used in the context of the following news items.
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Molybdenum: The Most Important Element You've Never Heard Of
It just doesn't have that indefinable sexiness about it. But what if I told you that it's the only thing that's keeping most of your food from killing you ... «io9, Jul 15»
2
The tortured artist myth: how creativity really works - The Irish Times
It's straight back to the endless hours and the slog, the never-ending search for the next indefinable thing worth pinning down. Let's have that as ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
3
Shenmue III is now Kickstarter's most funded video game ever
A sweeping, masterful open-world epic, its almost indefinable nature bedazzled and bamboozled gamers in equal measure. Though always ... «Siliconrepublic.com, Jul 15»
4
Ultralight perfection - Flight Tests - Pilot
The first aircraft I ever flew was a Slingsby T-21, and its RAF roundels gave even this very simple sailplane an almost indefinable air of glamour. «PilotWeb, Jul 15»
5
"23. The Best Little Town" - Fallout 3 | Crafting A Narrative Experience
It was neither threatening, nor menacing, but there was an indefinable sense that it was all an act put on for our benefit. “I was going to suggest ... «Only Single Player, Jul 15»
6
Rolling Stone Australia — Art of Sleeping - Shake Shiver
Shake Shiver is folk-inflected pop-rock at its most polite and inoffensive, a sort of generic soundtrack designed to instill an indefinable sense of ... «Rolling Stone Australia, Jul 15»
7
From Bela to Martin | The Nation
That was something indefinable, which went beyond the comedy-horror dichotomy it played and (in the end) broke the rift between audience ... «nation.lk - The Nation Newspaper, Jul 15»
8
Sounds like tomorrow
Often, it's something indefinable: the movie just felt more real than normal. In a few cases, the person may walk out a little rattled, like someone ... «California Lutheran University, Jul 15»
9
Lord's, the Magical Home of Cricket, Has Provided so Many Vibrant …
Both had something indefinable that no other ground could match for me; something of an atmosphere that reeked of the history of all the ... «NDTVSports.com, Jul 15»
10
Animal form | TNS - The News on Sunday
Across the sign of bus stop, another world starts emerging in which huge birds are perched in an indefinable space. Yet the way of drawing ... «The News on Sunday, Jul 15»

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