Indistinct

3 definitions found

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

  Indistinct \In`dis*tinct"\ ([i^]n`d[i^]s*t[i^][ng]kt"), a. [L.
     indistinctus: cf. F. indistinct. See {In-} not, and
     {Distinct}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     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.
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     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.
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              When we come to parts too small four our senses, our
              ideas of these little bodies become obscure and
              indistinct.                           --I. Watts.
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              Their views, indeed, are indistinct and dim.
                                                    --Cowper.
  
     Syn: Undefined; indistinguishable; obscure; indefinite;
          vague; ambiguous; uncertain; confused.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  indistinct
       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" [ant:
             {distinct}]

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

  139 Moby Thesaurus words for "indistinct":
     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