Vague \Vague\, n. [Cf. F. vague.]
An indefinite expanse. [R.]
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The gray vague of unsympathizing sea. --Lowell.
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Vague \Vague\ (v[=a]g), a. [Compar. Vaguer (v[=a]g"[~e]r);
superl. Vaguest.] [F. vague, or L. vagus. See Vague, v.
i.]
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1. Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. [Archaic] "To set upon the
vague villains." --Hayward.
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She danced along with vague, regardless eyes.
--Keats.
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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.
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The poet turned away, and gave himself up to a sort
of vague revery, which he called thought.
--Hawthorne.
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3. Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated;
uncertain; flying; as, a vague report.
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Some legend strange and vague. --Longfellow.
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Vague year. See Sothiac year, under Sothiac.
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Syn: Unsettled; indefinite; unfixed; ill-defined; ambiguous;
hazy; loose; lax; uncertain.
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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.
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Vague \Vague\, n.
A wandering; a vagary. [Obs.] --Holinshed.
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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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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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