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The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind. The indelicacy of English comedy. Blair. Your papers would be chargeable with wors…

Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv.

Want of determination; an unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind. Jer. Taylor.

Want of devotion; impiety; irreligion. "An age of indevotion." Jer. Taylor.

Want of dexterity or readiness, especially in the use of the hands; clumsiness; awkwardness. Harvey.

The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance.

State of indifference; want of interest or earnestness; especially, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism. The indifferentism which equalizes all religions and gives equal rights to truth and error. Cardinal Manning.

The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence. Cowper.

Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. [Obs.] Bacon.

Want of diligence. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Want of discipline or instruction. [R.]

Want of discovery. [Obs.]

Not discreet; wanting in discretion. So drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Shak.

The quality or state of being indiscreet; want of discretion; imprudence.

Not discriminate; wanting discrimination; undistinguishing; not making any distinction; confused; promiscuous. "Blind or indiscriminate forgiveness." I. Taylor. The indiscriminate defense of right and wrong. Junius. -- In`dis*crim"i*nate*ly, adv. Cowper.

Want of discrimination or distinction; impartiality. Jefferson.

Want of distance o [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being agreeable to the will of God. Sprat.

The quality or condition of being indistinct; want of definiteness; dimness; confusion; as, the indistinctness of a picture, or of comprehension; indistinctness of vision.

Want or absence of divine power or of divinity. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.