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INDISTINCT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand
Example:
only indistinct notions of what to do
Classified under:
Similar:
bedimmed (made dim or indistinct)
bleary; blurred; blurry; foggy; fuzzy; hazy; muzzy (indistinct or hazy in outline)
cloudy; nebulose; nebulous (lacking definite form or limits)
dim; faint; shadowy; vague; wispy (lacking clarity or distinctness)
faint (indistinctly understood or felt or perceived)
veiled (muted or unclear)
Also:
unclear (not clear to the mind)
indefinite (vague or not clearly defined or stated)
Antonym:
distinct (easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined)
Derivation:
indistinctness (the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines)
Context examples:
I have but an indistinct idea of what happened for some time after this baleful object presented itself to my view.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Afterwards, when I went upstairs, as I passed the door of my little chamber, which was dark, I had an indistinct impression of her being within it, cast down upon the floor.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mrs. Crupp always called me Mr. Copperfull: firstly, no doubt, because it was not my name; and secondly, I am inclined to think, in some indistinct association with a washing-day.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As I went up to my airy old room, the grave shadow of the staircase seemed to fall upon my doubts and fears, and to make the past more indistinct.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Shortly afterwards, we were very high up in a very hot theatre, looking down into a large pit, that seemed to me to smoke; the people with whom it was crammed were so indistinct.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
