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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adaptable, changeable |
| Synonyms: | adjustable, changeful, flexible, floating, fluctuating, indefinite, malleable, mercurial, mobile, mutable, protean, shifting, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable |
| Notes: | fluids include liquids and gases; a liquid is a fluid with a fixed volume, and a gas is a fluid that can expand indefinitely liquid is a substance that flows and takes on the form of its container; a fluid - substance with no fixed shape and yields easily to external pressure - can be a liquid but it can also be a gas |
| Antonyms: | inflexible, stable, unchangeable |
| Main Entry: | fuzzy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out of focus |
| Synonyms: | bleary, blurred, dim, distorted, faint, foggy, hazy, ill-defined, indefinite, indistinct, misty, muffled, murky, obscure, shadowy, unclear, unfocused, vague |
| Antonyms: | clear |
| Main Entry: | general |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexact, approximate |
| Synonyms: | ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, indefinite, loose, not partial, not particular, not specific, uncertain, undetailed, unspecific, vague |
| Antonyms: | circumscribed, definite, exact, individual, limited, particular, singular, specific |
| Main Entry: | hazy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cloudy |
| Synonyms: | bleared, bleary, blurred, blurry, clouded, crepuscular, dim, dull, dusky, faint, foggy, frosty, fuliginous, fumy, fuzzy, gauzy, indefinite, indistinct, misty, murky, mushy, nebulous, obfuscated, obfuscous, obscure, opaque, overcast, rimy, screened, shadowy, smoggy, smoky, soupy, steaming, thick, unclear, vague, vaporous, veiled |
| Antonyms: | clear, sunny, uncloudy, unhazy |
| Main Entry: | hazy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused |
| Synonyms: | dazed, dizzy, dreamy, groggy, ill-defined, indefinite, indistinct, muddled, murky, nebulous, obscure, stuporous, tranced, uncertain, unclear, unintelligible, unsound, vague, whirling |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, distinct, explained, sure, unconfused |
| Main Entry: | hypothetical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | guessed, assumed |
| Synonyms: | academic, assumptive, casual, concocted, conditional, conjecturable, conjectural, contestable, contingent, debatable, disputable, doubtful, equivocal, imaginary, imagined, indefinite, indeterminate, postulated, presumptive, presupposed, pretending, problematic, provisory, putative, questionable, refutable, speculative, stochastic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, suspect, theoretic, theoretical, uncertain, unconfirmed, vague |
| Antonyms: | calculated, confirmed, factual, measured, proved, proven, real, reliable, truthful |
| Main Entry: | immeasurable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | infinite, incalculable |
| Synonyms: | alive with, bottomless, boundless, countless, crawling with, endless, extensive, illimitable, immense, indefinite, inestimable, inexhaustible, jillion, large, limitless, measureless, no end of, no end to, umpteen, unbounded, uncountable, unfathomable, unlimited, unmeasurable, unreckonable, vast, zillion |
| Antonyms: | bounded, calculable, finite, limited, measurable |
| Main Entry: | indeterminate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncertain, vague |
| Synonyms: | borderless, general, imprecise, inconclusive, indefinite, indistinct, inexact, undefined, undetermined, unfixed, unspecified, unstipulated |
| Notes: | indeterminable means impossible to decide, fix, or measure while indeterminate means unclear or vague |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, determined, exact, fixed, measurable, sure |
| Main Entry: | indistinct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obscure, ambiguous |
| Synonyms: | bleared, bleary, blurred, confused, dark, dim, doubtful, faint, fuzzy, hazy, ill-defined, inaudible, inconspicuous, indefinite, indeterminate, indiscernible, indistinguishable, inexact, misty, muffled, murky, out of focus, shadowy, unclear, undefined, undetermined, unheard, unintelligible, vague, weak |
| Antonyms: | apparent, certain, defined, definite, discernible, distinct, evident, explicit, plain, positive, sure |
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