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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Indistinct \In'dis*tinct"\ ([i^]n'd[i^]s*t[i^][ng]kt"), adjective [L. indistinctus: cf. F. indistinct. See {In-} not, and {Distinct}.]
1. 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.'' --Shak.
2. 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. --I. Watts.
Their views, indeed, are indistinct and dim. --Cowper.
Syn: Undefined; indistinguishable; obscure; indefinite; vague; ambiguous; uncertain; confused.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
indistinct
adjective: not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand; "indistinct shapes in the gloom"; "an indistinct memory"; "only indistinct notions of what to do" [ant: {distinct}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
139 Moby Thesaurus words for "indistinct": aleatoric, aleatory, alike, ambiguous, amorphous, barely audible, blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, breathy, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, choked, choking, clear as mud, cloudy, confused, croaking, dark, decrescendo, dim, disordered, distant, drawling, drawly, dysphonic, equivocal, faint, faint-voiced, feeble, filmy, foggy, fuzzy, general, gentle, guttural, half-heard, half-seen, half-visible, harsh, hawking, hazy, hit-or-miss, hoarse, ill-defined, illegible, imprecise, inaccurate, inarticulate, inchoate, incoherent, inconspicuous, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indiscernible, indistinctive, indistinguishable, inexact, inseparable, interchangeable, lax, lisping, loose, low, low-profile, merely glimpsed, mispronounced, misty, muddy, muffled, murky, murmured, muzzy, nasal, nebulous, nonspecific, obscure, opaque, orderless, out of focus, pale, pianissimo, piano, quavering, random, scarcely heard, semivisible, shadowed forth, shadowy, shaking, shaky, shapeless, snuffling, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, standard, stereotyped, stifled, stochastic, strangled, subaudible, subdued, sweeping, thick, throaty, transcendent, tremulous, twangy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undifferentiated, undiscriminated, undistinguishable, undistinguished, uniform, unintelligible, unplain, unrecognizable, unspecified, vague, veiled, velar, weak, weak-voiced, whispered, without distinction
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