vague

Plural: vagues

Adjective Satellite

• not clearly understood or expressed; ; -Anatole Broyard; - P.A.Sorokin; - John Locke
  • "their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"
  • "vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science"
• lacking clarity or distinctness
  • "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"

Adjective

• Not clearly expressed, understood, or defined.
• not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished
  • "vague feelings of sadness"
  • "a vague uneasiness"

Adj

• Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
• Not having a precise meaning.
• Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
• Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.
• Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
• Lacking expression; vacant.
• Not sharply outlined; hazy.
• Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.

Noun

• A wandering; a vagary.
• An indefinite expanse.

Verb

• to wander; to roam; to stray.
• To become vague or act in a vague manner.
• To make vague negative comments publicly; to make highly veiled complaints or insults.

Examples

• a vague hint of a thickening waistline
• a vague longing
• a vague term of abuse
• I haven’t the vaguest idea.
• My opponent’s strategy was so VAGUE, I couldn’t predict their next move.
• only a vague notion of what’s needed

Synonyms

dim, faint, obscure, shadowy, undefined, wispy, Chinese, Greek, abstruse, ambiguous, dazed, dense, enigmatic, equivocal, erratic, fathomless, fuzzy, generic, gray, hazy, ill-defined, ill-marked, impenetrable, imperspicuous, imprecise, inapprehensible, inarticulate, incognizable, incomprehensible, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, ineffable, inenubilable, inexplicable, inscrutable, insensible, insoluble, insolvable, muzzy, mysterious, nonunderstandable, retruse, roaming, thick, turbid, uncertain, unclear, undecipherable, undefinable, undiscoverable, unexplainable, unfathomable, ungraspable, unintelligible, unknowable, unsettled, ununderstandable, vacant, vacuous, vagabond, vagrant, vague, vaguepost, woolly

Antonyms

defined, certain, clear, definable, definite, determinate, distinct, exact, perspicuous, precise

Related Words

extravagant, gay vague, gender-vague, mysterious, noctivagant, vagabond, vagary, vaguely, vagueness, vagus, VAGUELY

Anagrams of vague