2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Indefinite  \In*def"i*nite\,  a.  [L.  indefinitus  See  {In-}  not 
  and  {Definite}.] 
  1.  Not  definite;  not  limited,  defined,  or  specified;  not 
  explicit;  not  determined  or  fixed  upon  not  precise; 
  uncertain;  vague;  confused;  obscure;  as  an  indefinite 
  time,  plan  etc 
 
  It  were  to  be  wished  that  .  .  .  men  would  leave  off 
  that  indefinite  way  of  vouching,  ``the  chymists  say 
  this,''  or  ``the  chymists  affirm  that.''  --Boyle. 
 
  The  time  of  this  last  is  left  indefinite.  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  Having  no  determined  or  certain  limits;  large  and 
  unmeasured,  though  not  infinite;  unlimited;  as  indefinite 
  space;  the  indefinite  extension  of  a  straight  line 
 
  Though  it  is  not  infinite,  it  may  be  indefinite; 
  though  it  is  not  boundless  in  itself  it  may  be  so 
  to  human  comprehension.  --Spectator. 
 
  3.  Boundless;  infinite.  [R.] 
 
  Indefinite  and  omnipresent  God,  Inhabiting  eternity. 
  --W.  Thompson 
  (1745). 
 
  4.  (Bot.)  Too  numerous  or  variable  to  make  a  particular 
  enumeration  important;  --  said  of  the  parts  of  a  flower, 
  and  the  like  Also  indeterminate. 
 
  {Indefinite  article}  (Gram.),  the  word  a  or  an  used  with 
  nouns  to  denote  any  one  of  a  common  or  general  class. 
 
  {Indefinite  inflorescence}.  (Bot.)  See  {Indeterminate 
  inflorescence},  under  {Indeterminate}. 
 
  {Indefinite  proposition}  (Logic),  a  statement  whose  subject 
  is  a  common  term,  with  nothing  to  indicate  distribution  or 
  nondistribution  as  Man  is  mortal. 
 
  {Indefinite  term}  (Logic),  a  negative  term;  as  the  not-good. 
 
  Syn:  Inexplicit;  vague;  uncertain;  unsettled;  indeterminate; 
  loose;  equivocal;  inexact;  approximate. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  indefinite 
  adj  1:  vague  or  not  clearly  defined  or  stated;  "must  you  be  so 
  indefinite?";  "amorphous  blots  of  color  having  vague 
  and  indefinite  edges";  "he  would  not  answer  so 
  indefinite  a  proposal"  [ant:  {definite}] 
  2:  not  decided  or  not  known  "were  indefinite  about  their 
  plans";  "plans  are  indefinite" 

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