Vague

Adjective

 * 1) not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
 * 2) * 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
 * Throughout the first week of his presidency, Dulles and Bissell continued to brief Kennedy on their strategy for Cuba, but the men were vague and their meetings offered little in the way of hard facts.
 * 1) not having a precise meaning.
 * a vague term of abuse
 * 1) not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
 * only a vague notion of what’s needed
 * a vague hint of a thickening waistline
 * I haven’t the vaguest idea.
 * 1) not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.
 * a vague longing
 * 1) not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
 * 2) lacking expression; vacant.
 * 3) not sharply outlined; hazy.
 * 1) not sharply outlined; hazy.

Synonyms

 * obscure

Related terms

 * vaguely (adverb)
 * vagueness (noun)

Adverbs for Vague
intentionally; perplexingly; embarrassingly; obscurely; dimly; stupidly; precariously; ambiguously; unintelligibly; distressingly; mysteriously; unwisely; uncertainly; casually; airily; delusively; evasively; subtly; inconclusively; darkly; abstrusely; impenetrably; remotely; unwarrantably; foolishly; speciously; misleadingly; tenuously; terribly; nonsensically; senselessly; completely; perilously; fearfully; alarmingly; ominously; significantly; fantastically; needlessly; unreliably.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From vague: <  vagus:.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: epämääräinen, ympäripyöreä
 * German: nebelhaft, schwach, unklar, undeutlich, ungenau, ungewiss, vage, verschwommen
 * Greek: ασαφής,
 * Hebrew:, , לא ברור
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: нејасен, неодреден,


 * Polish: niejasny
 * Russian: неясный, нечёткий,
 * Spanish: vago, impreciso
 * Swedish: vag, oklar
 * Turkish: anlaşılmaz, belirsiz, bulanık, karanlık, muğlak, müphem, şüpheli, üstü kapalı


 * Finnish: epämääräinen, epätarkka


 * only a vague notion of what’s needed
 * a vague hint of a thickening waistline
 * I haven’t the vaguest idea.


 * Finnish: epämääräinen


 * Finnish: epämääräinen


 * Finnish: epäselvä, hämärä


 * Finnish: epätarkka


 * : (ghaameD)
 * : 含糊 (hánhú)


 * : 曖昧な (あいまいな, aimai na)
 * : 흐리다 (heurida), 애매하다 (aemaehada)
 * : (1-7), obestämd (1-7)
 * : (1-7), obestämd (1-7)
 * : (1-7), obestämd (1-7)

Noun

 * 1) wave

Related terms

 * vaguelette
 * vaguette

Adjective

 * 1) vague

Noun

 * 1) vagueness

Synonyms

 * distrait

Related terms

 * vaguement

Etymology
From, from vague:, of  origin, from  vágr:, from , from. Cognate with våg:,  waeghe:, wage:,  wage:,  wæg:. More at,.