Meaning of INDISTINCT
| Pronunciation: | | `indi'stingkt
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| | Definition: | | [adj] not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand; "indistinct shapes in the gloom"; "an indistinct memory"; "only indistinct notions of what to do" |
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| | Synonyms: | | bedimmed, bleary, blurred, blurry, cloudy, dim, faint, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy, nebulose, nebulous, shadowy, vague, veiled, wispy |
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| | Antonyms: | | distinct | | |
| | See Also: | | indefinite, unclear | |
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| | Definition: | | \In`dis*tinct"\, a. [L. indistinctus: cf. F.
indistinct. See {In-} not, and {Distinct}.]
1. Not distinct or distinguishable; not separate in such a
manner as to be perceptible by itself; as, the indistinct
parts of a substance. ``Indistinct as water is in water.''
--Shak.
2. Obscure to the mind or senses; not clear; not definite;
confused; imperfect; faint; as, indistinct vision; an
indistinct sound; an indistinct idea or recollection.
When we come to parts too small four our senses, our
ideas of these little bodies become obscure and
indistinct. --I. Watts.
Their views, indeed, are indistinct and dim.
--Cowper.
Syn: Undefined; indistinguishable; obscure; indefinite;
vague; ambiguous; uncertain; confused.
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| | Related Terms: | | aleatoric, aleatory, alike, ambiguous, amorphous, barely audible, blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, breathy, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, choked, choking, clear as mud, cloudy, confused, croaking, dark, decrescendo, dim, disordered, distant, drawling, drawly, dysphonic, equivocal, faint, faint-voiced, feeble, filmy, foggy, fuzzy, general, gentle, guttural, half-heard, half-seen, half-visible, harsh, hawking, hazy, hit-or-miss, hoarse, ill-defined, illegible, imprecise, inaccurate, inarticulate, inchoate, incoherent, inconspicuous, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indiscernible, indistinctive, indistinguishable, inexact, inseparable, interchangeable, lax, lisping, loose, low, low-profile, merely glimpsed, mispronounced, misty, muddy, muffled, murky, murmured, muzzy, nasal, nebulous, nonspecific, obscure, opaque, orderless, out of focus, pale, pianissimo, piano, quavering, random, scarcely heard, semivisible, shadowed forth, shadowy, shaking, shaky, shapeless, snuffling, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, standard, stereotyped, stifled, stochastic, strangled, subaudible, subdued, sweeping, thick, throaty, transcendent, tremulous, twangy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undifferentiated, undiscriminated, undistinguishable, undistinguished, uniform, unintelligible, unplain, unrecognizable, unspecified, vague, veiled, velar, weak, weak-voiced, whispered, without distinction |
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