Vague
[veɪg] or [veɡ]
Definition
(v. i.) Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
(v. i.) Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition.
(v. i.) Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as, a vague report.
(n.) An indefinite expanse.
(v. i.) To wander; to roam; to stray.
(n.) A wandering; a vagary.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Uncertain, ambiguous, dim, doubtful, obscure, undetermined, indefinite, indistinct, unsettled, loose, lax, unfixed, not precise, not exact.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:General, lax, indefinite, undetermined, popular, intangible, equivocal,unsettled, uncertain, ill-defined, pointless
ANT:Strict, definite, determined, limited, scientific, pointed, specific
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Definition
adj. unsettled: indefinite: uncertain: of doubtful origin: not thinking clearly.—v.i. (obs.) to wander.—n. indefinite expanse.—adv. Vague′ly.—n. Vague′ness.
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Examples
- Go back as far as you will into the vague past, there was always a Damascus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A vague feeling of impending misfortune impressed me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It threw a livid, unnatural circle upon the floor, while in the shadows beyond we saw the vague loom of two figures which crouched against the wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A vague, very simple Christianity pervaded the illiterate peasant life, mixed with much superstition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I had a sort of vague desire to examine his hands and see if they were of flesh and blood, like other men's. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yet I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay upon the ground to the left of me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- But politics was a personal drama without meaning or a vague abstraction without substance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And yet his wife trembled, and a vague but heavy fear was upon her. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I don't doubt you any longer, said Dorothea, putting out her hand; a vague fear for him impelling her unutterable affection. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For a long time his receiving instruments would only give out vague rumbling noises. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The further we get away from this direct, first-hand source of knowledge, the more numerous the sources of error, and the vaguer the resulting idea. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But the latter term may be used to indicate a number of qualifications which are vaguer than vocational ability. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The reader who seeks to find some one idea under which the whole may be conceived, must necessarily seize on the vaguest and most general. Plato. The Republic.
- Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- They were surrounded by creatures ready to stimulate their slightest wishes and to translate their vaguest impulses into action. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If it was a cue, Lily was ready to take it, though with only the vaguest sense of what was expected of her in return. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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