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adjective

Indistinct adj.

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."

Obscure to the mind or senses; not clear; not definite; confused; imperfect; faint; as, indistinct vision; an indistinct sound; an indistinct idea or recollection. "When we come to parts too small four our senses, our ideas of these little bodies become obscure and indistinct." "Their views, indeed, are indistinct and dim."

Synonyms: Undefined; indistinguishable; obscure; indefinite; vague; ambiguous; uncertain; confused.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Indistinct" Quotes from Famous Books

... sons, to bring them up alone and unaided? How was a man's own heart to do without the sympathy to which it had turned, the love which had strengthened, warmed, and sustained it? Dr. Maybright was standing by the window, looking out at the familiar garden, which showed shadowy and indistinct in the growing dusk, when Polly crept softly into the room, and, going up to his side, laid her pretty ...

— Polly - A New-Fashioned Girl • L. T. Meade

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— Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat • Ross Kay

... tassel grew indistinct, and the patter, patter, patter of the teams behind came as from a distance. He closed his eyes, and the events of the past two days drifted through his mind. Already they seemed indistinct, as a dream. He wondered dully that they could be true ...

— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge

... passion which lately subjugated his soul? He rose from his seat; he walked about the room; each minute his heart was lighter, his brow more smooth. A thousand thoughts, beautiful and quivering like the twilight, glanced o'er his mind in indistinct but exquisite tumult, and hope, like the voice of an angel in a storm, was heard above all. He lifted a chair gently from the ground, and, stealing to the enchantress, seated himself at her side. So softly he reached her, that for ...

— The Young Duke • Benjamin Disraeli

... The drops of rain sounded strangely on the iron roof of the dosshouse. Above the mountain where the town lay the ringing of bells was heard, rung by the watchers in the churches. The brazen sound coming from the belfry rang out into the dark and died away, and before its last indistinct note was drowned another stroke was heard and the monotonous silence was again broken by the melancholy ...

— Creatures That Once Were Men • Maxim Gorky

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