Indefinable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Indefinable \In`de*fin"a*ble\, a.
     Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable. --Bp.
     Reynolds.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  indefinable
       adj 1: not capable of being precisely or readily described; not
              easily put into words; "an indefinable feeling of
              terror"; "an abstract concept that seems indefinable"
              [syn: {undefinable}]
       2: defying expression or description; "indefinable yearnings";
          "indescribable beauty"; "ineffable ecstasy";
          "inexpressible anguish"; "unspeakable happiness";
          "unutterable contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor"
          [syn: {indescribable}, {ineffable}, {unspeakable}, {untellable},
           {unutterable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "indefinable":
     aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad,
     chance, chancy, chaotic, confused, disordered,
     enwrapped in mystery, foggy, fuzzy, general, hazy, hit-or-miss,
     ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent,
     incommunicable, indecisive, indefinite, indescribable,
     indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, ineffable, inenarrable,
     inexact, inexplicable, inexpressible, inextricable, innominable,
     insoluble, insolvable, lax, loose, mysterious, mystic,
     noncommunicable, nonspecific, obscure, orderless, random,
     shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, stochastic, sweeping,
     unaccountable, unclear, undefinable, undefined, undestined,
     undetermined, unexplainable, uninterpretable, unmentionable,
     unnameable, unplain, unsolvable, unspeakable, unspecified,
     untellable, unutterable, unwhisperable, vague, veiled