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indeterminate
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  • This happens on and off for an indeterminate amount of time.  (source)
  • Mona gave Hanna an indeterminate look; Hanna wondered for a second if it was a look of pity.  (source)
    indeterminate = vague (unknown in meaning)
  • After that, the sound of the inquisitorial voices seemed merged in one dreamy indeterminate hum.  (source)
    indeterminate = unknown (not individually distinguished and perhaps not understood as a group)
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  • He's indeterminate, he wavers, like a candle flame but devoid of light.†  (source)
  • The problem has an indeterminately large number of variables.†  (source)
  • And Roberta, suddenly noticing the strangeness of it all—the something of eerie unreason or physical and mental indetermination so strangely and painfully contrasting with this scene, exclaiming: "Why, Clyde!†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • The setting is always green mountains and clear water, with handsome men and pretty women of some indeterminate era living in harmony with nature.†  (source)
  • "Why, what on earth!" she cried as he knew she would, becoming flustered and moving her arms indeterminately.†  (source)
  • A mysterious odor of indeterminate origin.†  (source)
  • He went out indeterminately.†  (source)
  • At her side, also on skis, were a pair of bundled-up little blond kids of indeterminate sex.†  (source)
  • Scarcely had I dropped my head back into its original position, when there flashed upon my mind what I cannot better describe than as the unformed half of that idea of deliverance to which I have previously alluded, and of which a moiety only floated indeterminately through my brain when I raised food to my burning lips.†  (source)
  • His indeterminate age—he could have been thirty or forty-five—was, in part, the result of the muscular rigidity of his body; and his bristling skull was so closely shaved, the stubble of his hair could have been either a whitish blond or a whitish gray.†  (source)
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