undefinable

Definition of undefinablenext

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Recent Examples of undefinable The best bars are full of an undefinable spirit, something that draws people in and convinces them to linger. Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2025 Sports cars are famously undefinable, encompassing a broad array of roadsters, four-door cars, coupes, grand tourers, supercars, and even some straight-up race cars. Robert Ross, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2025 Making a case for the undefinable quality of camp, Doonan asks what do Grace Jones, Benjamin Disraeli, Salvador Dalí, K-pop and a giant art nouveau vase covered in fairies and stuffed with peacock feathers have in common. Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 23 July 2025 The streets are dotted with workers in hazmat suits doing undefinable tasks and the stores are rundown. Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for undefinable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undefinable
Adjective
  • Sid Vangala, senior AI systems engineer and architect at MasTec, said the industry is entering an era where responsibility boundaries are completely undefined.
    Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Leave ownership undefined, and the moon will become a playground for politicians and their cronies.
    Antony Davies, Boston Herald, 19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Far from Hegseth’s predictions of a quick, decisive win, the Iran war has now drifted into a costly, indeterminate muddle.
    Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Certain statutes explicitly appeal to what’s reasonable—exasperating those who find the standard hopelessly indeterminate.
    Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The video contained audio of the girl choking, as well as indistinct banging in the truck.
    Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Ovidian metamorphosis is a perfect manifestation of the third space in which either/or is replaced by hybridity and, as Calvino says, indistinct borders.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Something that felt uncertain now becomes obvious.
    Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026
  • Whether there's enough support to pass such a measure is uncertain.
    Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • An undetermined number of geofence warrants Just how many geofence warrants have been issued in recent years is unknown.
    Nina Totenberg, NPR, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Of those deaths, one was confirmed to be due to a vessel strike, six had undetermined causes of death or no necropsy — an animal autopsy — carried out and two have necropsies pending.
    Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • When that happens, its responses in content, tone, and emotionality will become virtually, if not totally, indistinguishable from those of another human being.
    Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2026
  • With the account tokens and signing keys, the attacker went on to publish a malicious element-data package that was nearly indistinguishable from a legitimate one.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Made even more inexplicable by his own background.
    Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Perhaps the most inexplicable one was third-base coach and outfield and base-running instructor Kyle Hudson.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026

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“Undefinable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undefinable. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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