indeterminate
adjective /ˌɪndɪˈtɜːmɪnət/
/ˌɪndɪˈtɜːrmɪnət/
- that cannot be identified easily or exactly
模糊的;不确定的;难以识别的 - She was a tall woman of indeterminate age.
她是个看不出年龄的高个女子。
Collocations DictionaryIndeterminate is used with these nouns:- colour
- sentence
词源early 17th cent.: from late Latin indeterminatus, from in- ‘not’ + Latin determinatus ‘limited, determined’ (, past participle of determinare ‘limit, fix’, from de- ‘completely’ + terminare ‘terminate’). - She was a tall woman of indeterminate age.