vague
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4.6
- adjective
- /veɪg/
:
vago
- She gave a vague response that left everyone confused.
- too vague
- a vague notion
- a vague term
It's just like so vague and nice and pillowy.
- It's just like so vague and nice and pillowy.
- Or you, you kind of, it's vague, Very vague.
- It was a string of very vague utopian promises.
- I'm telling you that people that are vague get punished.
- And it doesn't want to have just a vague notion of this.
- And being vague is out of focus, blurry.
- I will be attempting A vague Yorkshire accent.
- That's why I was quite vague and didn't want to mention anyone.
- Like so much of philosophy is just sort of vague or general.
- You know, I, I have some vague episodic memory of this.
- We we leave the loose and vague to the illustrators.
- That sounds to me so vague that it is hopelessly immeasurable.
- If I'm unsure, I'll give it to you in vague, round terms.
- I feel like audience is a very vague word.
- So they were sort of vague and I couldn't really feel them.
Examples
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The report was filled with vague statements and lacked specific details.
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Most people have a vague understanding of it.
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And we just sort of made vague plans to talk again soon.
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Often, this is a vague comment like 'he acts a little funny.'
Academic text (2011) -
As always, she could only develop some kind of vague, abstract notion from his words.
Fiction book (1990) -
The warnings that appeared in newspapers were usually vague and in small print.
Academic text (1991) -
I seem to have a vague recollection that we had a couple of children.
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That's why I was quite vague and didn't want to mention anyone.
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I told him my dreams were a ragbag of vague snippets of images.
Fiction book (1990) -
Policies are often vague, redundant, and occasionally appear to be in direct contradiction to each other.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
328
5.3
Not easy to see, hear, or understand
207
3.9
Not easy to understand or know for sure
39
4.0
Not clearly fixed or known, with no set end date
28
8.2
Hard to understand because it is unclear or complex
27
4.8
Something that does not give clear details
19
4.3
Not clear and hard to see or remember
14
5.5
Not exact or clear enough to be useful
12
3.5
A thought that is not clear or detailed
11
7.0
Not clearly known or decided
10
7.9
Unclear and hard to picture or describe
8
5.3
Not clearly limited or described
8
7.3
Not clear or organized, like an explanation with no main idea
5
6.5
Not clearly or exactly stated
5
5.1
Hard to see or understand because it is not clear
Not clearly separated from other things and lacking clear edges
Antonyms
Compounds
1
9.3
A French film movement from the late 1950s and 1960s that used new ways of filming and telling stories
How Vague
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word vague comes from the Latin vagus, meaning 'wandering' or 'not fixed', and you can see the same root in vagrant, a person who wanders. So a vague idea 'wanders' instead of staying in one clear place, which is why it means 'not clearly defined' or 'lacking detail'.