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Definition: Inconclusive |
InconclusiveAdjective1. Not conclusive; not putting an end to doubt or question; "an inconclusive reply"; "inconclusive evidence"; "the inconclusive committee vote". 2. Leading to no final results or outcome; "an inconclusive experiment". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inconclusive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Antonym: conclusive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Reasoning, | Unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid; unwarranted, not following; inconsequent, inconsequential; inconsistent; absonous, absonant; unscientific; untenable, inconclusive, incorrect; fallacious, fallible; groundless, unproved; non sequitur. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inconclusive |
| English words defined with "inconclusive": inconclusiveness ♦ mistrial ♦ purported, putative ♦ reputed ♦ supposed ♦ Unconcluding, Unconclusive. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "inconclusive": like nailing jelly to a tree ♦ Packer concentration. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Thomas Carlyle | Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | At best, they are inconclusive. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The existing data are inconclusive. (references) | |
There are certain patients for whom evidence is inconclusive and decisions will have to be individualized. (references) | ||
Available data are currently inconclusive regarding the use of taxanes in adjuvant treatment of node-positive breast cancer. (references) | ||
Economic History | Bolivia | Elections in 1978, 1979, and 1980 were inconclusive and marked by fraud. (references) |
Thailand | However, following inconclusive elections, former army commander Suchinda Kraprayoon was appointed prime minister. (references) | |
Senegal | As of May 2001, negotiations are ongoing between Senegal and the European Union for the finalization of a new multi-year fishing agreement, but to date the negotiations have been inconclusive. (references) | |
Human Rights | Georgia | Other results of the judicial reform effort were inconclusive. (references) |
Macedonia | However, an exhumation of the suspected gravesite conducted by the Ministry of the Interior from November 22 to 25 was inconclusive at year's end. (references) | |
Syria | According to media accounts of the trial, doctors for both the defense and the prosecution testified that Hijazi's body showed signs of having been beaten, but witnesses, including Hijazi, made contradictory and inconclusive claims regarding whether the alleged abuse occurred while he was in Jordanian or Syrian custody. (references) | |
Political Economy | Moldova | Further negotiations have been inconclusive. (references) |
Romania | However, investigations of police abuses generally are lengthy and inconclusive and rarely result in prosecution or punishment. (references) | |
Political Rights | Turkey | In September an unknown assailant threw a hand grenade into a HADEP office in Cizre (Sirnak province) and caused some damage, but no injuries; a police investigation was inconclusive. (references) |
Worker Rights | Argentina | The reform legislation, which some labor unions strongly opposed, led to an inconclusive investigation into alleged bribes to key Senators to vote in favor of the legislation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Inconclusive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.57% of the time. "Inconclusive" is used about 234 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.57% | 233 | 19,663 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.43% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 234 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
inconclusive pap smear | 3 |
inconclusive pap | 3 |
inconclusive pap test | 3 |
inconclusive | 3 |
inconclusive pregnancy test | 3 |
hiv inconclusive test | 2 |
inconclusive schumann | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "inconclusive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | jovendimtar, jopërfundimtar, jobindës (flimsy, unconvincing). (various references) | |
Arabic | غير مقنع (unconversable, unsatisfied), غير حاسم (indecisive). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неубедителен (lame, threadbare, unconvincing, unpersuasive), неокончателен (indecisive, indeterminate, interlocutory, undecisive), неопределен (ambiguous, amorphous, formless, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicit, infinitive, loose, neutral, nondescript, uncertain, undefined, undetermined, unidentified, vague). (various references) | |
Chinese | 非决定性. (various references) | |
Czech | neprùkazný (undemonstrative), nepřesvìdèivý (threadbare, unconvincing, unpersuasive), bezvýsledný (unsuccessful, wasted). (various references) | |
Farsi | مجمل (Abstract, Compendious, Succinct, Synopsis), ناتمام (Imperfect, Incomplete, Partial, Unfinished), غیرقاطع , بی پایان (Abyss, Eternal, Eternity, Incessant, Unbound, Unending, Unfinished), بی نتیجه (Abortive, Indeterminate, Ineffective, Ineffectual). (various references) | |
French | sans résultat concluant, peu concluant. (various references) | |
German | ergebnislos (abortively, fruitless, inconclusively, indecisive, sterile, unsuccessful, without result). (various references) | |
Greek | όχι πειστικίσ, όχι αποφασιστικόσ, μη τελεσίδικοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לא משכנע, לא מכריע. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hatástalan (effectless, futile, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, inoperative, non-effective, nugatory, of no effect, weak). (various references) | |
Italian | inconcludente (ineffectual), In sospeso (outstanding, pending). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ずぶ濡れ (dripping wet, in a line, in a row, inconclusive but unwanted situation, loose, soaked, sound or act of dragging, to delay, to put off, trailingly), 小田原評定 (fruitless or inconclusive discussion). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ずるずる (inconclusive but unwanted situation, loose, sound or act of dragging, trailingly), おだわらひょうじょう (fruitless or inconclusive discussion). (various references) | |
Korean | 결정적이 아닌. (various references) | |
Manx | neuhickyragh (unconvincing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inconclusiveay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inconsequente (incoherent, inconsecutive, inconsequent, inconsistent), inconcludente, ilgico (illogical, inconsecutive, inconsequent, inconsistent), no convincente. (various references) | |
Romanian | neconcludent (indecisive). (various references) | |
Russian | неубедительный (flimsy, lame, unconvincing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neubedljiv (lame, unconvincing). (various references) | |
Spanish | poco concluyente. (various references) | |
Swedish | inte slutgiltig, inte avgörande (indecisive), inte övertygande, resultatlös (fruitless, ineffective, ineffectual). (various references) | |
Turkish | ikna edici olmayan (unconvincing), yetersiz (defective, deficient, disqualified, exiguous, half-way, handicapped, inadequate, incapable, incommensurate, incompetent, inefficient, ineligible, insufficient, meager, meagre, poorly, powerless, scant, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, shoestring, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfied, unsatisfying), sonuçsuz (barren, fruitless, ineffective, sterile, to no avail). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | незавершений (incomplete, open), недоказовий (indefensible). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không đi đến kết luận, bỏ lửng; không quyết định. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inconclusive": inconclusively, inconclusiveness, inconclusivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Inconclusive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inconclusives, nconclusive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inconclusive" (pronounced i'nkunkluw"siv) |
| 9 | -k u n k l uw" s i v | conclusive. |
| 7 | -n k l uw" s i v | inclusive. |
| 6 | -k l uw" s i v | exclusive, nonexclusive, reclusive. |
| 5 | -l uw" s i v | allusive, collusive, elusive, illusive. |
| 4 | -uw" s i v | abusive, conducive, intrusive, obtrusive, unobtrusive. |
| 3 | -s i v | abrasive, adhesive, aggressive, apprehensive, aversive, coercive, cohesive, comprehensive, compulsive, convulsive, corrosive, counteroffensive, decisive, defensive, depressive, derisive, discursive, dismissive, dispersive, divisive, effusive, erosive, evasive, excessive, expansive, expensive, explosive, expressive, extensive, hypertensive, impassive, impressive, impulsive, incisive, indecisive, inexpensive, inoffensive, invasive, massive, missive, nonresponsive, obsessive, offensive, oppressive, passive, pensive, permissive, persuasive, pervasive, possessive, progressive, recessive, reflexive, regressive, repressive, repulsive, responsive, submissive, subversive, successive, unimpressive, unresponsive. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-i-l-n-n-o-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: conclusive, nucleonics. | |
-3 letters: colicines, convinces, culicines, inclusion, inclusive, nucleonic, occlusive. | |
-4 letters: colicine, colicins, coniines, connives, convince, convulse, councils, culicine, envision, evulsion, inclines, invoices, isocline, nonlives, nucleins, nucleons, olivines, oscinine, silicone, unionise, unvoices. | |
-5 letters: cilices, cineols, clinics, colicin, concise, coniine, conines, connive, council, counsel, cuisine, culices, elision, elusion, envious, eosinic, icicles, incline, inclose, insulin, inulins. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-i-l-n-n-o-s-u-v" | |
+2 letters: inconclusively. | |
+4 letters: inconclusiveness. | |
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