indeterminate
adjective/ˌɪndɪˈtɜːmɪnət/
/ˌɪndɪˈtɜːrmɪnət/
- that cannot be identified easily or exactly
- She was a tall woman of indeterminate age.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryIndeterminate is used with these nouns:- colour
- sentence
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from late Latin indeterminatus, from in- ‘not’ + Latin determinatus ‘limited, determined’ (, past participle of determinare ‘limit, fix’, from de- ‘completely’ + terminare ‘terminate’).Definitions on the go
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