inspecific
/ˌɪn.spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "[...]; in this case it is the indeterminate antecedent stage of an inspecific measurement process[.]"
- "This is, of course, an optimism, and an inspecific optimism at that, since there is in it no antecedent commitment to just which normative concepts will prove sustainable in this way."
- "(1) Used to curse in an inspecific way the addressee or another person or thing referenced. “There never was such a murderer born into this wicked world as Adam Penfeather, with a curse!” (Roger Tressady, Black Bartlemy's Treasure 302)"
- "An inspecific action resulting in the reduced seed production of the mutant. As this effect is in principle similar in many genotypes homozygous for different mutant genes, it cannot be due to distinct changes of the nucleotide sequence of the DNA."
- "But though including irrelevant characteristics in our moral generalization does not affect its truth, it does affect its usefulness, and the more irrelevant characteristics we can eliminate from our characterization of the class of actions which are being said to be wrong, and the more inspecific this class in consequence becomes, the more actions it will apply to, and so the more useful it will be."
- "From what we have seen (Chapter 2), we can expect uno si- to be an individualized impersonal reflexive; that is, to use an inspecific person acting in his own interest as representative of some larger group."
Etymology
From in- + specific.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɪn.spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/
- British English: /ˌɪn.spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/
Inflected Forms
more inspecific (comparative)
most inspecific (superlative)