Vague

Word VAGUE
Character 5
Hyphenation vague
Pronunciations /veɪɡ/

Definitions and meanings of "Vague"

What do we mean by vague?

Not clear in meaning or expression; inexplicit. synonym: ambiguous. adjective

Not thinking or expressing oneself clearly. adjective

Lacking definite shape, form, or character; indistinct. adjective

Indistinctly felt, perceived, understood, or recalled; hazy. adjective

To wander; rove; roam; play the vagrant.

Wandering; roving; vagrant.

Uncertain as to characters and specific designation, yet limited in scope and application; restricted in logical breadth, without any corresponding fullness of logical depth; said to be determinate, but without precise expression of the determination.

Proceeding from no known authority; of uncertain origin or derivation: as, a vague report.

Having unclear perception or thought; not thinking clearly.

A wandering; a journey; a voyage. noun

A vagary; a whim. noun

An undefined expanse: indefinite space. noun

To wander; to roam; to stray. intransitive verb

Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. adjective

Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous. adjective

Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated; uncertain; flying. adjective

See Sothiac year, under Sothiac. adjective

An indefinite expanse. noun

A wandering; a vagary. noun

Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms. adjective

A wandering; a vagary.

An indefinite expanse.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Vague

The word "vague" in example sentences

These _vague_ articles, intended for a more vague performance, are the things which have damned our reputation in India. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

"Curious!" echoed Rebecca, finding the term vague even while suggestive. ❋ Unknown (1995)

Weber himself is at least partly to blame for this problem, for he frequently left the term vague, in spite of many attempts to clarify himself. ❋ Tal Howard (1993)

An initial draft of the resolution, prepared by France and Britain, had language, I was told, that called for the exercise of "vigilance" involving arms transfers to Syria - a word vague enough for the Russians to have agreed to it last year in the latest round of U.N. sanctions against Iran. ❋ By JOHN VINOCUR (2011)

I have used the English word vague as an equivalent of that word in Japanese aimaina. ❋ Unknown (1995)

Scottish business school student Steven Renwick used to harbor what he called a "vague aspiration" to get his MBA from an American institution such as the Stanford Graduate School of Business. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Now, Booth hopes to pick another court fight to clarify what he calls a "vague" situation that has left pastors uncertain about what they can and can't say from the pulpit. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Yet despite this well-known pattern of exploitation, the company announced in January that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had awarded it a 5-year $385 million contract to build immigrant "detention facilities" (prisons) for immigrants arrested on charges of entering the country illegally and to provide construction and logistics support services in the event of an "immigration emergency," a term vague enough to cause activists to suspect the worst -- that they are openly planning to build detention camps for political dissidents. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They must remain vague, at times numbingly so, in order to conceal the preposterously transparent sleight-of-hand of their fiscal policy. ❋ Alec Baldwin (2010)

This has resulted in vague, imprecise tasting notes with limited potential for awarding marks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Late last week, Connecticut Senate candidate Linda McMahon was quoted as saying, in vague terms, that she'd be open to the idea of adjusting the federal minimum wage laws. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

I actually watched the so-called convention on c-span yesterday while exercising and was astounded as I watched speaker after speaker rail and spew in vague generalities not once did anyone actually propose any concrete proposal for a solution to any of their paranoid rants. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In 2008, the Vatican's delegation to the U.N. General Assembly called for an "end to all criminal penalties" against "homosexual persons," but voted against a proposed U.N. gay rights declaration that it called vague and excessively far-reaching. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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