indefinable

Example Sentences

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Of course, beauty is subject to taste and culture and all sorts of indefinable things.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

It expresses a general anxiety the prompt of which is indefinable, a nagging sense that has no singularly compelling explanation.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024

And that work, which exists in some indefinable terrain between off-the-rack categories like “traditional” and “modern,” is truly magnetic.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2022

The crushing of the belief that the Seattle ballclub, by dint of some indefinable flaw in their DNA, would always wilt and wither in crunchtime.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022

There was a new quiet feeling and an indefinable smell, new and faintly fragrant.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith