Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not distinguishable, especially.
- adjective Impossible to differentiate or tell apart.
- adjective Impossible to discern; imperceptible.
- adjective Difficult to understand or make out; vague.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not distinguishable; incapable of being distinguished, separated, or discriminated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
distinguishable ; not capable of beingperceived , known, ordiscriminated as separate and distinct - adjective Not capable of being perceived or known.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not capable of being distinguished or differentiated
- adjective exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different
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Examples
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And it is what we call indistinguishable from all of the others.
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Men and women, all indistinguishable from the creature who had shared its house with Conan -- there were no children, Conan noted -- moved about the village in the same unhurried pace, lugging an empty basket here, dumping a pale of water there.
Archive 2009-12-01 Reis O'Brien 2009
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A billion dollars worth of oil-spill cleanup and cyanide for a suicide cult is indistinguishable from a billion dollars worth of education and bridge repair.
Matthew Yglesias » The United States Has Always Been Rich 2010
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After all, cutting back on something temporarily out of budgetary necessity is indistinguishable from a long term master plan to eliminate it.
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Of course, they remain free to attack B'nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish Congress as they've always done -- in language completely indistinguishable from the dreck you can find, for example, over at Ezra Levant's place.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Men and women, all indistinguishable from the creature who had shared its house with Conan -- there were no children, Conan noted -- moved about the village in the same unhurried pace, lugging an empty basket here, dumping a pale of water there.
Conan Fan Fiction! Cromsblood 2009
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Otherwise, a President really is indistinguishable from a dictator.
Stromata Blog: 2009
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Or will it be indistinguishable from the infrastructure of digital communication?
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Otherwise, a President really is indistinguishable from a dictator.
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Further, the income distribution of recruits is virtually indistinguishable from the general population of the same age group and they come from households that generally represent the demographics of the nation.
Pantsbomber psyche laid bare in messageboard archives (corrected) Boing Boing 2009
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