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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INDISTIN'GUISHABLE, a. [in and distinguishable.]
That cannot be distinguished or separated; undistinguishable.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different; "rows of identical houses"; "cars identical except for their license plates"; "they wore indistinguishable hats" [syn: identical, indistinguishable]
2: not capable of being distinguished or differentiated; "the two specimens are actually different from each other but the differences are almost indistinguishable"; "the twins were indistinguishable"; "a colorless person quite indistinguishable from the colorless mass of humanity" [syn: indistinguishable, undistinguishable] [ant: distinguishable]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1606 not distinguishable: as a. indeterminate in shape or structure <indistinguishable forms in the mist> b. not clearly recognizable or understandable <indistinguishable differences> c. lacking identifying or individualizing qualities <seemingly indistinguishable alternatives> • indistinguishability noun • indistinguishableness noun • indistinguishably adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (often foll. by from) not distinguishable. Derivatives: indistinguishableness n. indistinguishably adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Indistinguishable In`dis*tin"guish*a*ble, a. Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form or color; the difference between them was indisguishable.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If one thing is indistinguishable from another, the two things are so similar that it is difficult to know which is which. Replica weapons are indistinguishable from the real thing. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ from n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Undistinguishable, that cannot be distinguished or discriminated. 2. Imperceptible, unobservable, unnoticeable, not to be made out, indiscernible. 3. Confused, indistinct, chaotic, vague, obscure, dim.

Moby Thesaurus

alike, all one, all the same, blear, bleared, bleary, blurred, blurry, confused, consubstantial, dark, dim, duplicate, equal, equivalent, exactly alike, faint, feeble, filmy, foggy, fuzzy, half-seen, half-visible, hazy, homoousian, identic, identical, ill-defined, imperceptible, inconspicuous, indefinite, indiscernible, indistinct, indistinctive, inseparable, interchangeable, just alike, like, low-profile, merely glimpsed, misty, obscure, one, out of focus, pale, same, selfsame, semivisible, shadowy, standard, stereotyped, tantamount, twin, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undifferent, undifferentiated, undiscriminated, undistinguishable, undistinguished, uniform, unplain, unrecognizable, vague, weak, without difference, without distinction