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vague
/veɪɡ/
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What does vague mean?
adjective
- Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
- Not having a precise meaning.
- Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
More meanings (10)
adjective
- 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
- An indefinite expanse.
- (obsolete) A wandering; a vagary.
verb
- To become vague or act in a vague manner.
- To make vague negative comments publicly; to make highly veiled complaints or insults.
- (archaic) to wander; to roam; to stray.
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IPA pronunciation
/veɪɡ/
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Their vague feminine formula for beloved ones doing brave deeds on the field of battle without risk of life would be destroyed.
Some vague figures approached through the gloom, swinging an old-fashioned tin lantern that freckled the ground with innumerable little spangles of light.
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The bold travelers being borne away into gloomy space, without their accustomed cortege of rays, felt a vague uneasiness in their hearts.
Peering through the gloom, I saw the vague outline of a man, a shade blacker than the blackness of the open door.
Again and again she examined the crude little note, for she did not know what it meant, yet it bred vague fear.