indeterminately

Examples

• All

• "What'd you say?" Tom asked indeterminately.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Her feelings about the situation remained indeterminately vague and unclear.

• There is something circular and static to our conversation, which doesn't end so much as frazzle indeterminately out.

  Academic text (2010)

• On the other hand, if science proved that some of our behavior was essentially indeterminately or randomly generated, it's hard to see how that could serve as the basis for ascribing behavior to an intentional agent.

  Academic text (1996)

• Instead, each position in the spiral is indeterminately sadistic and masochistic, both sadistic and masochistic at the same time, because attached to each position is a certain pleasure and a certain power.

  Academic text (1995)

• Males lack a meristem and show determinate growth, whereas hermaphrodites possess a meristem (called the notch meristem) and grow indeterminately.

  Academic text (1998)

• The project's timeline was indeterminately extended due to unforeseen circumstances.

• The professor mentioned that the meeting could last indeterminately, depending on the discussion.

Synonyms

I

indefinitely

vsindeterminately

104 4.8

For a time with no set end

applies more broadly to unclear limits in amount extent or time

I

indeterminably

vsindeterminately

8.4

You cannot know the exact meaning or result

is used when lack of clear limits in amount time or extent is meant

I

indefinably

vsindeterminately

7.5

In a way you cannot clearly describe

focuses on unclear limits or lack of a fixed amount or time

Antonyms

C

clearly

881 1.0

In a way that is easy to see, hear, or understand

D

definitively

42 4.1

Says or does something in a clear and final way that leaves no doubt

How Clear

definitely

∞ 1.0

clearly

881 1.0

unclearly

1 4.4

vaguely

115 3.9

indeterminately

7.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology