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The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
Stephen Hawking

Meaning of "indefinite" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INDEFINITE

indefinite  [ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INDEFINITE

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

WHAT DOES INDEFINITE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Indefinite

Indefinite may refer to: ▪ In mathematics: ▪ When talking about indefinite forms in multilinear algebra, see definite bilinear form. ▪ "Indefinite integral" refers to the antiderivative. ▪ "Indefinite" is sometimes used to describe an unknowable quantity, with meaning similar to "unlimited" or "undetermined". ▪ In grammar, see indefinite article and indefinite pronoun.

Definition of indefinite in the English dictionary

The first definition of indefinite in the dictionary is not certain or determined; unsettled. Other definition of indefinite is without exact limits; indeterminate. Indefinite is also vague, evasive, or unclear.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INDEFINITE


acuminate
əˈkjuːmɪnɪt
binit
ˈbaɪnɪt
cabinet
ˈkæbɪnɪt
definite
ˈdɛfɪnɪt
determinate
dɪˈtɜːmɪnɪt
effeminate
ɪˈfɛmɪnɪt
geminate
ˈdʒɛmɪnɪt
homogenate
hɒˈmɒdʒɪnɪt
indeterminate
ˌɪndɪˈtɜːmɪnɪt
indiscriminate
ˌɪndɪˈskrɪmɪnɪt
infinite
ˈɪnfɪnɪt
innominate
ɪˈnɒmɪnɪt
inordinate
ɪnˈɔːdɪnɪt
insubordinate
ˌɪnsəˈbɔːdɪnɪt
minute
ˈmɪnɪt
obstinate
ˈɒbstɪnɪt
ordinate
ˈɔːdɪnɪt
palatinate
pəˈlætɪnɪt
subordinate
səˈbɔːdɪnɪt
up-to-the-minute
ˌʌptəðəˈmɪnɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INDEFINITE

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE INDEFINITE

axinite
bainite
ciminite
crinite
erinite
finite
gadolinite
granite
kainite
kaolinite
langbeinite
nephelinite
penninite
rabbinite
retinite
serpentinite
transfinite
uraninite
vanadinite
vulpinite
Wisconsinite

Synonyms and antonyms of indefinite in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INDEFINITE»

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

Translation of «indefinite» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INDEFINITE

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

Translator English - Chinese

不确定的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

indefinido
570 millions of speakers

English

indefinite
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनिश्चितकालीन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير محددة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неопределенный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

indefinido
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনির্দিষ্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

indéfini
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak terbatas
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unbestimmt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無期限の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무기한의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Indefinite
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không xác định
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காலவரையற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनिश्चित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

belirsiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

indefinito
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieokreślony
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

невизначений
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nedeterminată
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αόριστη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onbepaalde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

obestämd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ubestemt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of indefinite

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INDEFINITE»

The term «indefinite» is quite widely used and occupies the 29.645 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INDEFINITE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «indefinite» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «indefinite» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «INDEFINITE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word indefinite.
1
Eric Butterworth
While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.
2
DeWitt Clinton
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
3
Arthur Conan Doyle
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
4
Oliver Ellsworth
Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.
5
Oliver Ellsworth
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.
6
Emma Goldman
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
7
Stephen Hawking
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
8
Tony Judt
We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.
9
Gerhard Richter
I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.
10
Tom Ridge
This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INDEFINITE»

Discover the use of indefinite in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to indefinite and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Indefinite Reenlistment and Noncommissioned Officers
In 1998, the U.S. Army became the only service to shift its senior enlistment force from a fixed enlistment contract system to indefinite reenlistment, which eliminated the reenlistment requirement in the latter half of a noncommissioned ...
‎2007
2
Indefinite Pronouns
This book shows that the range of variation in the functional and formal properties of indefinite pronouns is subject to a set of universal implicational constraints, and proposes explanations for these universals.
Martin Haspelmath, 2000
3
Indefinite Linear Algebra and Applications
This book is dedicated to relatively recent results in linear algebra with indefinite inner product.
Israel Gohberg, Peter Lancaster, Leiba Rodman, 2006
4
Indefinite-Quadratic Estimation and Control: A Unified ...
Presents a unified mathematical framework for a wide range of problems in estimation and control.
Babak Hassibi, Ali H. Sayed, Thomas Kailath, 1999
5
Linear operators in spaces with an indefinite metric
A monograph on the fundamentals of the theory of linear operators in spaces with an indefinite metric.
Tomas I︠A︡kovlevich Azizov, Iosif Semenovich Iokhvidov, 1989
6
Logic and Lexicon: The Semantics of the Indefinite
The book is an extended edition of a German monograph and is addressed to advanced students and researchers in theoretical and computational linguistics, logic, philosophy of language, and NL- oriented AI. Although it makes extensive use of ...
Manfred Pinkal, 1995
7
Elliptic Boundary Value Problems with Indefinite Weights, ...
In this chapter we treat non- self adjoint elliptic eigenvalue problems with indefinite weights. The prototype we treat, incorporates the drift as part of a flux as modeled in chapter 1. We give variational (minimax) characterizations for the principal ...
Fethi Belgacem, 1997
8
Essays on Nominal Determination: From Morphology to ...
Articles, definite and indefinite Michael Herslund Copenhagen Business School In the Indo-European languages where a definite article exists, it is historically derived from a demonstrative pronoun. The hypothesis of this paper is that the ...
Henrik Høeg Müller, Alex Klinge, 2008
9
Persian Gramar:
LESSON I The Indefinite tS -i. The Personal Pronouns. The Demonstrative Pronouns. i. There is no definite or indefinite article in Persian.1 Broadly speaking, a noun becomes indefinite by the addition of tf -i, e.g. v^ ketab, (the) book. ketabi, ...
Ann K. S. Lambton, 1974
10
Indefinite Ocean: Adventures of a Fifteen-Year-Old ...
Adventures of a Fifteen-Year-Old Vietnamese Fugitive D. J. Trinh. D. J. Trinh Indefinite Ocean Indefinite Ocean Indefinite Ocean Adventures of a Fifteen-Year- Old Vietnamese Fugitive. Adventures of a Fifteen-Year-Old Vietnamese Fugitive.
D. J. Trinh, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INDEFINITE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term indefinite is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Mike Weir taking 'indefinite leave of absence' from Tour | Golf Channel
Mike Weir is taking an "indefinite leave of absence" from competition. The 2003 Masters champion, an Ontario, Canada native, tweeted this ... «Golf Channel, Jul 15»
2
Ryan declines comment on Aaron Kromer's arrest, indefinite leave …
Two days after the arrest, the Bills placed Ryan on indefinite paid administrative leave. Kurt Anderson is the Bills' assistant offensive line coach ... «Bills Blitz - The Buffalo News, Jul 15»
3
The Statesman: Haryana petroleum dealers to go on indefinite strike
Haryana-based petroleum dealers on Friday said they will go on an indefinite strike from July 20 in protest against the non-fulfillment of their ... «The Statesman, Jul 15»
4
An indefinite pause on a workers' revolution | News | National | M&G
An indefinite pause on a workers' revolution. 17 Jul 2015 00:00 Phillip de Wet. The Cosatu congress has been called a bloody nose for the progressive side of ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Jul 15»
5
Indefinite hunger strike for English as MoI from July 27 - The Times …
Panaji: Savio Lopes of Forum for Rights of Children to Education (FORCE) will go on an indefinite hunger strike from July 27 onwards at Panaji ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
6
Indefinite: Patrick Asmah, 5 others suspended by B.A United | AllSports
The Apostles of Power Soccer have handed an indefinite ban to six of their players for going AWOL. Published: 16.07.2015; Thomas Freeman Yeboah. «AllSports.com.gh, Jul 15»
7
Attorney Discipline – Indefinite Suspension | Minnesota Lawyer
Attorney Discipline – Indefinite Suspension. By: cassiejohnson July 16, 2015 0. A14-0098 In re Selmer (Original Jurisdiction). Subscribe; Login ... «Minnesota Lawyer, Jul 15»
8
Kwara's LG workers begin indefinite strike over unpaid salaries
WorldStage Newsonline-- Members of the Nigerian Union of Local Government employees (NULGE) in Kwara State on Thursday began an ... «WorldStage, Jul 15»
9
Hazare to go on indefinite hunger strike over land bill, OROP issue
Social activist Anna Hazare has decided to go on an indefinite hunger strike at the Ramlila ground in Delhi from October 2 over the land ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
10
Ryan Moore out of hospital but faces an indefinite period on the …
Three-time champion jockey Ryan Moore is out of hospital after sustaining a neck injury at Newmarket last week but still facing an unspecified ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»

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