All 3 Uses of
inconclusive
in
Nineteen Minutes
- Gun B had a partial print on it that was inconclusive.
Chpt 1inconclusive = not conclusive (not putting an end to doubt or question about whose print it was)
- There's an inconclusive print on the trigger, probably smudged when your suspect dropped it, but I can't say that for certain.
Chpt 1
- He had spent hours at the police station, his first stop after leaving Alex's house, scrutinizing the enlarged fingerprint that had been on Gun B. An inconclusive one; one that he'd assumed, lazily, to be Peter's.
Chpt 2 *
Definition:
not conclusive (not putting an end to doubt or question)
Standard prefix: in- at the beginning of a word often means "not" as in incorrect or independent. So, inconclusive means not conclusive.