[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

nebulous \neb"ulous\, a. l. nebulosus: cf. f. n'ebuleux. see
   nebula.
   1. cloudy; hazy; misty.
      1913 webster

   2. astron. of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of,
      a nebula; nebular; cloudlike.
      1913 webster -- neb"ulously, adv. --
      neb"ulousness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
nebula neb"ulously neb"ulousness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

nebulous
     adj 1: lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy issues
            toward a feeble conclusion"- h.t.moore; "nebulous
            distinction between pride and conceit" syn: cloudy,
             nebulose
     2: lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons";
        "unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to
        be"- jane austen syn: unfixed
see also:
cloudy nebulose unfixed 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

111 moby thesaurus words for "nebulous":
   cynthian, abstract, amorphous, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral,
   astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical,
   bland, blind, blurred, broad, castellatus, celestial,
   circumplanetary, cirrose, cirrous, cislunar, clear as mud,
   cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, collective, cumuliform, cumulous,
   dark, dim, dirty, empyreal, empyrean, equinoctial, extragalactic,
   faint, featureless, foggy, fuzzy, galactic, general, generalized,
   generic, gloomy, hazy, heavenly, heavy, heliacal, ill-defined,
   indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, intercosmic, interplanetary,
   intersidereal, interstellar, lenticularis, lunar, lunary, lunate,
   lunular, lunulate, mammatus, meteoric, meteoritic, misty, muddy,
   murky, nebular, nebulose, neutral, nimbose, nonspecific, nubilous,
   obscure, opaque, overcast, overclouded, pale, planetal,
   planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, semilunar, shadowy,
   shapeless, sidereal, solar, sphery, squally, star-spangled,
   star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, stormy, stratiform,
   stratous, terrestrial, thunderheaded, transcendent, turbid,
   uncharacterized, unclear, undifferentiated, unplain, unspecified,
   uranic, vague, wide, zodiacal

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