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ill-defined

[il-di-fahynd] / ˈɪl dɪˈfaɪnd /


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The space was dark, ill defined, the edges fading into misty nothingness — the antithesis of the sharply defined spaces my friend preferred.

From Nature • Jul. 21, 2020

Size-distributions of pandemics, floods, forest fires, earthquakes, wars, terrorist attacks, crimes and IT investments, e.g., have no population mean, or the mean is ill defined due to infinite variance.

From Salon • Jul. 5, 2020

But little in medicine is as ill defined or as anecdotal as addiction treatment.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2019

It's about those here legally, with green cards, who commit an offense that is ill defined.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2018

Their limits with us under the former government were generally ill defined, questionable, and the frequent cause of war.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson




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