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unexplicit
adjective as in equivocal
adjective as in tenebrous
adjective as in unintelligible
adjective as in vague
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- amorphous
- amphibological
- bewildering
- bleary
- blurred
- cloudy
- dark
- dim
- doubtful
- dreamlike
- enigmatic
- generalized
- ill-defined
- impalpable
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- indistinct
- inexplicable
- loose
- misunderstood
- muddy
- perplexing
- problematic
- puzzling
- questionable
- shadowy
- superficial
- tenebrous
- undetermined
- unintelligible
- unknown
- unsettled
- unspecified
Example Sentences
When something violent happens, it is against that same unemphatic, unexplicit background, minus disturbing sound effects and musical underscoring.
The moment is made all the sexier for how unexplicit it is, though the director's cut version is a bit steamier.
It now seems incredible that only a generation ago a sexually unexplicit novel about a middle-aged man and a pubescent girl caused a national scandal.
It was brief, unexplicit, and though perfectly kind and tender, peremptory.
The Jewish prophets did not arrive at their ideas about God without a great deal of hard thinking, though the thinking is for the most part unexplicit and the mode of expression poetic.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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