Found 6 hits - Term: vague, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
vague \vague\, n. cf. f. vague.
an indefinite expanse. r.
1913 webster
the gray vague of unsympathizing sea. --lowell.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
vague \vague\ v=ag, a. compar. vaguer v=ag"~er;
superl. vaguest. f. vague, or l. vagus. see vague, v.
i.
1913 webster
1. wandering; vagrant; vagabond. archaic "to set upon the
vague villains." --hayward.
1913 webster
she danced along with vague, regardless eyes.
--keats.
1913 webster
2. unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous;
as, a vague idea; a vague proposition.
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this faith is neither a mere fantasy of future
glory, nor a vague ebullition of feeling. --i.
taylor.
1913 webster
the poet turned away, and gave himself up to a sort
of vague revery, which he called thought.
--hawthorne.
1913 webster
3. proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated;
uncertain; flying; as, a vague report.
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some legend strange and vague. --longfellow.
1913 webster
vague year. see sothiac year, under sothiac.
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syn: unsettled; indefinite; unfixed; ill-defined; ambiguous;
hazy; loose; lax; uncertain.
1913 webster
see also:
vaguer vaguest vague vague year sothiac year sothiac
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
vague \vague\, v. i. f. vaguer, l. vagari, fr. vagus roaming.
to wander; to roam; to stray. obs. "the soul doth vague
and wander." --holland.
1913 webster
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
vague \vague\, n.
a wandering; a vagary. obs. --holinshed.
1913 webster
- [5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
vague
adj 1: not clearly understood or expressed; "an obscure turn of
phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain
obscure battles of his own spirit"-anatole broyard;
"their descriptions of human behavior become vague,
dull, and unclear"- p.a.sorokin; "vague...forms of
speech...have so long passed for mysteries of
science"- john locke syn: obscure
2: not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished; "an
undefined term"; "undefined authority"; "some undefined
sense of excitement"; "vague feelings of sadness"; "a
vague uneasiness" syn: undefined ant: defined
3: lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the
distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures
in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through
the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" syn: dim,
faint, shadowy, wispy
see also:
obscure undefined defined dim faint shadowy
wispy
- [6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
223 moby thesaurus words for "vague":
abstract, aimless, airy, aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphic,
amorphous, amphibological, anarchic, attenuate, attenuated, baggy,
bland, blank, blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blobby, blurred,
blurry, boyish, broad, capricious, casual, chance, chancy, chaotic,
characterless, clear as mud, clouded, cloudy, collective,
concealed, confused, dark, delicate, desultory, diaphanous,
diluted, dim, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered,
disorderly, dispersed, disproportionate, doubtful, dreamlike,
dreamy, dull, empty, equivocal, erratic, ethereal, expressionless,
faint, featureless, feeble, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, finespun,
fitful, flimsy, foggy, formless, frail, frivolous, fuzzy, gauzy,
general, generalized, generic, girlish, gossamer, gracile,
gratuitous, half-seen, half-visible, haphazard, hazy, hidden,
hit-or-miss, ill-defined, immethodical, imprecise, in doubt,
inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, inconspicuous, inconstant,
indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate,
indiscriminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inexact, inexplicit,
inform, insubstantial, irregular, irresolute, kaleidoscopic, lacy,
lax, light, loose, low-profile, lumpen, meaningless,
merely glimpsed, misshapen, misty, murky, mushy, nebulous, neutral,
nondescript, nonspecific, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic,
nonuniform, obscure, opaque, orderless, out of focus, pale, papery,
planless, promiscuous, puzzled, random, rare, rarefied,
semivisible, senseless, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless,
shrouded, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish,
slinky, small, spasmodic, sporadic, stochastic, straggling,
straggly, subconscious, subliminal, subtle, svelte, sweeping,
sylphlike, systemless, tenebrous, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied,
thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, transcendent,
unarranged, uncertain, uncharacterized, unclassified, unclear,
undecided, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undifferentiated,
undirected, unexplained, unfixed, ungraded, unintelligible,
unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unplain,
unrecognizable, unsettled, unsorted, unspecific, unspecified,
unsubstantial, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vacant,
vacillating, vacuous, vaporous, vapory, veiled, wandering,
wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, wavering, weak, wide,
willowy, wiredrawn, wishy-washy, wispy
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