4. (Bot.)
Defn: 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.
INDEFINITELY
In*def"i*nite*ly, adv.
Defn: In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely. If the world be indefinitely extended, that is, so far as no human intellect can fancy any bound of it. Ray.
INDEFINITENESS
In*def"i*nite*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being indefinite.
INDEFINITUDE
In`de*fin"i*tude, n.
Defn: Indefiniteness; vagueness; also, number or quantity not limited by our understanding, though yet finite. [Obs.] Sir M . Hale.
INDEHISCENCE
In`de*his"cence, n. Etym: [Cf. F. indéhiscence.] (Bot.)