Definition of Ill-defined

1. Adjective. Poorly stated or described. "He confuses the reader with ill-defined terms and concepts"

Exact synonyms: Unclear
Antonyms: Well-defined
Derivative terms: Unclearness

Definition of Ill-defined

1. Adjective. Poorly defined; blurry, out of focus; lacking a clear boundary. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ill-defined

ilkon
ilkoon
ilks
ill
ill-advised
ill-advisedly
ill-affected
ill-begotten
ill-being
ill-boding
ill-bred
ill-breeding
ill-chosen
ill-conceived
ill-considered
ill-defined (current term)
ill-disposed
ill-doing
ill-equipped
ill-famed
ill-fated
ill-fatedly
ill-favored
ill-favoured
ill-favouredness
ill-fed
ill-formed
ill-gotten
ill-gotten gains
ill-humor

Literary usage of Ill-defined

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"Apart from these well-defined types there are lars in the channels of depositing streams, and much ill- defined alluvium which does not allow of ready ..."

2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"Apart from these well-defined types there are lars in the channels of depositing streams, and much ill- defined alluvium which does not allow of ready ..."

3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature: A Study of by Joseph Texte (1899)
"JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU AND MADAME DE STAEL I. How it was that in the eighteenth century cosmopolitanism was nothing more than an ill-defined ..."

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