\In*def"i*nite\, a. [L. indefinitus. See {In-} not,
and {Definite}.]
1. Not definite; not limited, defined, or specified; not
   explicit; not determined or fixed upon; not precise;
   uncertain; vague; confused; obscure; as, an indefinite
   time, plan, etc.
         It were to be wished that . . . men would leave off
         that indefinite way of vouching, ``the chymists say
         this,'' or ``the chymists affirm that.'' --Boyle.
         The time of this last is left indefinite. --Dryden.
2. Having no determined or certain limits; large and
   unmeasured, though not infinite; unlimited; as indefinite
   space; the indefinite extension of a straight line.
         Though it is not infinite, it may be indefinite;
         though it is not boundless in itself, it may be so
         to human comprehension.               --Spectator.
3. Boundless; infinite. [R.]
         Indefinite and omnipresent God, Inhabiting eternity.
                                               --W. Thompson
                                               (1745).
4. (Bot.) Too numerous or variable to make a particular
   enumeration important; -- said of the parts of a flower,
   and the like. Also, indeterminate.
{Indefinite article} (Gram.), the word a or an, used with
   nouns to denote any one of a common or general class.
{Indefinite inflorescence}. (Bot.) See {Indeterminate
   inflorescence}, under {Indeterminate}.
{Indefinite proposition} (Logic), a statement whose subject
   is a common term, with nothing to indicate distribution or
   nondistribution; as, Man is mortal.
{Indefinite term} (Logic), a negative term; as, the not-good.
Syn: Inexplicit; vague; uncertain; unsettled; indeterminate;
     loose; equivocal; inexact; approximate.