indefinable
Example Sentences
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The images have the feel of something pulled from someone else’s camera, from some indefinable time in the past.
From New York Times
A garden overstuffed with conifers seems to me to be static and lifeless, ironically, and the surfeit of pointed shapes against the sky is unsettling in some indefinable way.
From Washington Post
With modesty, precision and wry compassion, “I Used to Go Here” limns human nature at its most contradictory and indefinable, offering a textbook example — at least until the right German word comes along.
From Washington Post
That, and the poor finishing, suggest a lack of that indefinable quality that so often sets the best above the rest: an edge, a confidence, a ruthlessness, a capacity just to get the job done.
From The Guardian
The brain “is extremely cellularly complex,” says Lein, “but at the same time, finite and indefinable.”
From Science Magazine
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
