indefinable
indefinable adjective: that which cannot be precisely defined or put into words.
Adjective
indefinable (not comparable)
- That which cannot be precisely defined or put into words.
- They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178
- That which defies description; indescribable.
Noun
indefinable (plural indefinables)
- Anything that cannot be defined.
indefinable meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
indefinable in Tamil
- வரையறுக்க முடியாத, தெளிவற்ற, இனந்தெரியா
indefinable in Bengali
- অনির্বচনীয়, সংজ্ঞাতীত
indefinable in Malayalam
- indescribable, hard to define, hard to describe
- അനിർവ്വചനീയ, അപ്രതർക്യ, നിർവചിക്കാനാവാത്ത, അനിർവാച്യം, നിരുപാഖ്യ, അവർണ്ണനീയം
indefinable in Kannada
- ವಿವರಿಸಲಾಗದ, ಹೇಳಲಾಗದ, ನಿರೂಪಿಸಲಾಗದ, ಅನಿರ್ವಚನೀಯ
Synonyms of indefinable
Antonyms
Forms of indefinable
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Origin of indefinable
From in- + definable.
Words formed from indefinable
Questions about indefinable
- What does indefinable mean?
- Indefinable means that which cannot be precisely defined or put into words.
- What is indefinable in Tamil?
- Indefinable in Tamil is வரையறுக்க முடியாத, தெளிவற்ற, இனந்தெரியா. See Indefinable meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is indefinable?
- Indefinable can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near indefinable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: indefinable (page history and authors); indefinable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Indefinable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indefinable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); indefinable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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