Difference between Indefinite and Undefined

What is the difference between Indefinite and Undefined?

Indefinite as an adjective is without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite. while Undefined as an adjective is lacking a definition or value

Indefinite

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite. Vague or unclear. Undecided or uncertain. An integral without specified limits.

Example sentence: Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention system at Guantanamo even once he closed the camp. President Obama fully embraced indefinite detention - the defining injustice of Guantanamo - as his own policy.

Undefined

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Lacking a definition or valueThat does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation (for example, division by zero)

Example sentence: When the blues came out, it was something pure and undefined, but when all these white groups got hold of it, it became something else that didn't sound anything like the original. So you had Led Zeppelin doing their thing, which had come all the way from the blues.

We hope you now know whether to use Indefinite or Undefined in your sentence.

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