The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indistinctly \In`dis*tinct"ly\ ([i^]n`d[i^]s*t[i^][ng]kt"l[y^]), adv. In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended.
In its sides it was bounded distinctly, but on its ends
confusedly and indistinctly.
--Sir I.
Newton.
Wiktionary
adv. In an indistinct manner.
WordNet
adv. in a dim indistinct manner; "we perceived the change only dimly" [syn: dimly]
Usage examples of "indistinctly".
For another minute angry voices continued to be heard, echoing indistinctly from various quarters of the chamber, before finally falling reluctantly silent as the participants realized that none of their verbal jabs was getting through to the designated recipients.
The oars were shipped neatly, and he could see indistinctly many seamen and warriors on deck.
It became apparent that the source of much, at least, of the tumult of sounds which had filled our ears ever since we had recovered from the stupefaction of the fungus was a vast mass of machinery in active movement, whose flying and whirling parts were visible indistinctly over the heads and between the bodies of the Selenites who walked about us.
She grew whiter and whiter, began to hear the voices indistinctly, and to feel as if her arms did not belong to her.
At first he could hear only indistinctly, but gradually he caught the drift of the conversation between the rascally brokers and the former railroad lawyer.
All that remained was a face indistinctly recalled and fading fast: a man, young, smiling at him, asking him or telling him something.
Behind him, indistinctly, the Colonel was poking about in the sandtrap next to the fourth hole.
I have often noticed that the hair of a dog is particularly liable to rise, if he is half angry and half afraid, as on beholding some object only indistinctly seen in the dusk.
A dark mass was looming indistinctly from the sea bed, and they reduced speed to a gentle drift as they approached a little range of coral hills, twenty or thirty feet high.
These shadows of memory tell, indistinctly, of tall figures that lifted and bore me in silence down -- down -- still down -- till a hideous dizziness oppressed me at the mere idea of the interminableness of the descent.
Dennis, who had been drinking pink gins, spoke a little indistinctly.
At first indistinctly through the now sheeting rain, but then suddenly, frighten-ingly, and all too vividly rocks could be seen, some jagged, some curved, thrusting up from the river bed.