adjective
- not definite; without fixed or specified limit; unlimited: an indefinite number.
- not clearly defined or determined; not precise or exact: an indefinite boundary; an indefinite date in the future.
- Grammar.
- Botany.
- very numerous or not easily counted, as stamens.
- (of an inflorescence) indeterminate.
adjective
- not certain or determined; unsettled
- without exact limits; indeterminatean indefinite number
- vague, evasive, or unclear
- Also: indeterminate botany
- too numerous to countindefinite stamens
- capable of continued growth at the tip of the stem, which does not terminate in a floweran indefinite inflorescence
early 15c. (implied in indefinitely), from Latin indefinitus, from in- “not, opposite of, without” (see in- (1)) + definitus, past participle of definire (see define).