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a. [ L. indefatigabilis: cf. OF. indefatigable. See In- not, and Defatigable, and cf. Infatigable. ] Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; unremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application. “A constant, indefatigable attendance.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upborne with indefatigable wings. Milton.

Syn. -- Unwearied; untiring; persevering; persistent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Indefatigable quality; unweariedness; persistency. Parnell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Indefatigableness; unweariedness. [ Obs. ] J. Gregory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being indefeasible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + defeasible: cf. OF. indefaisable. ] Not to be defeated; not defeasible; incapable of being annulled or made void; as, an indefeasible or title. [ 1913 Webster ]

That the king had a divine and an indefeasible right to the regal power. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. indéfectibilité. ] The quality of being indefectible. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + defectible: cf. F. indéfectible. ] Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. [ 1913 Webster ]

An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not defective; perfect; complete. “Absolute, indefective obedience.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Indefeasible. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of not being defensible. Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Pref. in- not + defensible: cf. OF. indefensible, indefensable. ] Not defensible; not capable of being defended, maintained, vindicated, or justified; unjustifiable; untenable; as, an indefensible fortress, position, cause, statement, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men find that something can be said in favor of what, on the very proposal, they thought utterly indefensible. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an indefensible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Defenseless. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The sword awes the indefensive villager. Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of not being deficient. [ Obs. ] Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. indeficiens. See In- not, and Deficient. ] Not deficient; full. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Brighter than the sun, and indeficient as the light of heaven. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable. Bp. Reynolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an indefinable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. indefinitus. See In- not, and Definite. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The time of this last is left indefinite. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having no determined or certain limits; large and unmeasured, though not infinite; unlimited; as, indefinite space; the indefinite extension of a straight line. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though it is not infinite, it may be indefinite; though it is not boundless in itself, it may be so to human comprehension. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Boundless; infinite. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Indefinite and omnipresent God,
Inhabiting eternity. W. Thompson (1745). [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) Too numerous or variable to make a particular enumeration important; -- said of the parts of a flower, and the like. Also, indeterminate. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the world be indefinitely extended, that is, so far as no human intellect can fancy any bound of it. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being indefinite. [ 1913 Webster ]