Not giving a clear result

Usage examples of inconclusive.

The Angevin, who above all things liked to count and consolidate his gains in conflict, foresaw a long train of inconclusive aggressions and reprisals between church and state in which his arm, however powerful, could not effectively come at the ghostly armor of his antagonist.

Early testing indicates that computerized analysis is more accurate and produces fewer inconclusive results than human-administered tests.

An inconclusive test, though Backster's prior research is of considerable interest.

In the writings of Gregg Rickman, however, diagnoses of Dick abound and are relentlessly flogged despite the highly inconclusive evidence.

My tests on a possible chemical dependence have been inconclusive.

The Church, too, was upset, but the scars from the old Empire ran deep, and memories of the massive losses and inconclusive ending to the struggle produced a great deal of reluctance to commit themselves again to a massive military campaign estimated to cost up to a million lives.

Kilmartin’s voice was full of the light inflections of whimsy, the sonorous and beguiling range of tones and emphases, of words lingered on, others dropped like petals on water, at once inviting and intimate, one minute wryly direct, dreamily inconclusive the next.

Some theorists have been exploring the possibility of incorporating extra time dimensions into string theory, but as yet the situation is inconclusive.

Efforts to prove the truth of this had been inconclusive, but this inconclusiveness was in itself an affirmative answer: The computers were not capable of evasion, and it had been obvious that evasiveness was at work here.

Many of them jabbered and punched each other, in noisy, inconclusive bouts.

The same inconclusive work-outs on the track, the same slanderous rumours, same gossip, same stupid jokes, same stupid trainers, shooting their goddam stupid mouths off.

The contest was brief and inconclusive, as their neuters called them off and guided them to different cubes.

The footprints I found at the observation post were inconclusive, but probably not large enough to be a Jem’.

Vincennes stated that all three suspects' hands and arms reeked of perfume--a paraffin test would be inconclusive.

Everything else-submarine sinkings, land campaigns, air battles-more and more looked to him like vain blood-spillings, inconclusive obsolete gestures before this one big showdown, Hitler's plunge into Russia, opening a second front and releasing England from near doom, struck him as a madman's mistake-unless the Germans had successfully created a controlled chain reaction.