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indeterminable

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in·de·ter·min·a·ble  (nd-tûrm-n-bl)
adj.
1. Impossible to fix or measure: indeterminable traces of poison; indeterminable assets.
2. Impossible to settle or decide with finality: indeterminable questions.
inde·termin·a·bly adv.
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Adj.1.indeterminableindeterminable - not capable of being definitely decided or ascertained
undeterminable
incalculable - not capable of being computed or enumerated
indeterminate, undetermined - not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance; "of indeterminate age"; "a zillion is a large indeterminate number"; "an indeterminate point of law"; "the influence of environment is indeterminate"; "an indeterminate future"
determinable - capable of being determined or limited or fixed; "determinable velocities"; "matters determinable by law"
2.indeterminable - incapable of being definitely ascertained
incalculable - not capable of being computed or enumerated


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The average at that time in the Grand Duchy of Baden was forty-five to a young person (when alone), according to the official estimate of the home secretary for that year; the average for older people was shifty and indeterminable, for whenever a wholesome young girl came into the presence of her elders she immediately lowered their average and raised her own.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
The Lincoln hills rose up around me at the extremity of a snowy plain, in which I did not remember to have stood before; and the fishermen, at an indeterminable distance over the ice, moving slowly about with their wolfish dogs, passed for sealers, or Esquimaux, or in misty weather loomed like fabulous creatures, and I did not know whether they were giants or pygmies.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
But this vague conviction of indeterminable guilt, which was enough to keep up much head-shaking and biting innuendo even among substantial professional seniors, had for the general mind all the superior power of mystery over fact.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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