undefinable

adjective

Definition of undefinablenext
as in undefined

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Recent Examples of undefinable Miryang is neither a respite for Shin-ae nor an escape, but rather some undefinable cross between the two. — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024 Brady: …give me a sense of what that means, because that’s a term that people can immediately read as somewhere in that mid-market that’s kind of undefinable and sometimes hard to grow. — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 24 July 2024 The answer to that pursuit can be found only in something given little attention in laboratories, classrooms and battlefields — the undefinable, unscientific realm of art. — Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024 There’s one full of hair, a play on the undefinable ick one feels when one spots a stray hair in the sink or on the shower wall. — Nora Taylor, Curbed, 2 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for undefinable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undefinable
  1. undefined
  2. indeterminate
  3. indistinct
  4. uncertain
  5. undetermined
  6. indistinguishable
  7. inexplicable
Adjective
  • The talking stage seems to be a paradoxical, almost liminal space: both liberating and frustrating, full of potential yet undefined.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Timothy Bechtel, a senior professor of geosciences at undefined in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, told the Bergen Record that most sinkholes are caused by precipitation and begin with a manmade void or a natural cave.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of undefined
Adjective
  • Bringing studies together, 32% or 1 in 3 of participants had either critical or indeterminate findings.
    — Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Recently, Hechinger, who lives nearby, learned that the place was set to close at an indeterminate date in the future.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
Definition of indeterminate
Adjective
  • The play is now set in a purposely indistinct time period.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Often, the ad is for an indistinct mobile game featuring a woman with a freezing baby who must choose between spending her fifty gold coins on either building a working fireplace or repairing a broken window that’s letting in an icy breeze.
    — Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 11 Feb. 2025
Definition of indistinct
Adjective
  • Small Ceremonies, by Kyle Edwards Struggling to shake a losing streak, the St. Croix Tigers, Winnipeg’s North End hockey team, faces an uncertain future in Kyle Edwards’ pulsing, thoughtful novel.
    — Monitor contributors, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The more Macdonald resists mythologizing or summing up, the more John Lennon and Yoko Ono emerge as fragile, complex individuals on a journey together during uncertain times.
    — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Definition of uncertain
Adjective
  • Currently, there is no information on the containment of the fire and the cause of it is still undetermined.
    — CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • In 2022, Bishop-Freeman and colleagues published a paper detailing seven cases of undetermined pediatric deaths where bloodwork revealed elevated levels of melatonin.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2025
Definition of undetermined
Adjective
  • Unlike those issues, U.S. adults’ views on Trump’s handling of Social Security and management of the federal government are indistinguishable from his overall approval rating.
    — Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The design is nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.
    — Alex Vakulov, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Definition of indistinguishable
Adjective
  • The choice to center a film that primarily exists as a primer on the Gospels for young viewers around the parenting struggles of a 19th century literary figure who is not exactly at the forefront of culture is inexplicable.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Doncic was traded seemingly at the peak of his career, which made the trade even more shocking and inexplicable.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
Definition of inexplicable

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“Undefinable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undefinable. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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