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inconclusive

/in-kuhn-kloo-siv/US // ˌɪn kənˈklu sɪv //UK // (ˌɪnkənˈkluːsɪv) //

不确定,不确定的,不确定因素,不定论

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
    • : without final results or outcome: inconclusive experiments.

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Examples

  • A second opinion from James Andrews, a leading elbow expert, was inconclusive.

  • Studies of natural disasters have been similarly inconclusive.

  • An additional test taken Saturday morning “came back inconclusive” that night, he said, and Loeffler notified “those with whom she had sustained direct contact.”

  • The most important limitation of the study, the researchers wrote, is that “the findings are inconclusive.”

  • The board will say whether the vaccine is effective, doesn’t work, or that the trial should continue because the results are inconclusive.

  • But the available evidence is inconclusive about the effect of a small increase.

  • Indeed, the available evidence is inconclusive on what will happen to employment with an increase at these levels.

  • The initial military autopsy on Deirdre came back inconclusive as to the cause of her death.

  • “Uncertain,” “inconclusive,” “probably”—one would be alarmed to read such nervous gossip in a hack showbiz biog.

  • Yet so far, these studies have yielded inconclusive results.

  • His well-devised plan was defeated and the battle was as inconclusive as its predecessors.

  • And the same holds good of the other interesting but inconclusive parallels drawn by Dr. Cunliffe.

  • The drift towards independent labor politics, which many anticipate, also remains quite inconclusive.

  • For species on which I have few observations or rather inconclusive evidence, the circumstance of inadequate data is mentioned.

  • I thought that for a great lawyer, this style of proof was much too negative and inconclusive.