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Definitions in simple English

vague Adjective

— If something is vague, then it is not very clear or precise. The instructions for how to bake the cake turned out to be very vague.

vague

— adjective (= obscure) 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 — adjective (= undefined) not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished an undefined term undefined authority some undefined sense of excitement vague feelings of sadness a vague uneasiness — adjective (= dim, faint, shadowy, wispy) 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

Synonyms vague synonyms

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Topics vague topics

What do people use vague to talk about?

Person Sense, perceive See

Transparent

What words describe something that light shines through but you can't see through clearly?

translucent frosted cloudy clouded hazy dim unclear vague foggy smoky indistinct faint misty muddy shadowy turbid

Language and thought Think Understand

Mysterious

What words describe something that is difficult to understand?

vague oblique unclear not well worded cryptic hard to understand difficult to understand puzzle puzzling riddle

States Quantity All Exact

Approximate

What words describe something that is approximately the same as another thing?

loose vague hazy impressionistic broad

Examples vague examples

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Simple sentences

This meeting is a waste of time. Everybody is just talking in vague theoretical terms.

The vague rumor proved to be false.

This paragraph is vague.

Questioned about his policies, the candidate gave only vague answers.

He gave a vague answer.

He gave me a vague answer.

She gave a vague answer.

Tom gave a vague answer.

It's a vague story.

Friendship in itself is something very vague and even in cases of same-sex friendships, it takes many shapes and is brought on by many different motives.

Tom is vague.

You're vague.

She had a vague feeling of guilt.

She gave us a vague answer.

Tom gave Mary a vague answer.

There any many answers to this question, and people create many legends about the Devil's stone: the human mind cannot calm down until it explains to itself the dark, the unknown, and the vague.

It was vague.

Movie subtitles

In the midst of all their revelry the vague memory of a promise crept into Georgia's mind.

I had a vague idea I'd like to see the Pacific Ocean.. orperhapsdrowninit.

He's too vague.

I don't know whether that means he eats dogs or is fond of them. Mark's so vague.

I have a vague feeling of relapse coming on.

Yancey seemed a little vague about this game.

Or they may be cloud forms or great landscapes or vague shadows or geometrical objects floating in space.

The reason is vague.

But I hate to condemn a man on such vague evidence.

Yes, I have a vague idea.

You're a vague sort of a fellow, aren't you, Carpenter?

The room was dark. I saw only a vague heap lying on the floor.

I wish Helen wasn't so vague.

It has a vague family resemblance to Dorian. A sort of middle-aged, mad, gruesome uncle. with a debauched face and blood all over him.

You can't hold this boy on a vague suspicion.

But don't be vague. It complicates matters.

Yancey seemed vague about this game.

All I sa was a vague outline.

Because in some vague way, I still have.

The vague but canny threat against our northeastern coast was a blind.

I saw only a vague heap lying on the floor.

As in the cases of Lady Penrose and Judge Brisson, Journet also holds his presence but in each case it was vague and unexplainable.

His words were extravagant with vague threats. regarding the forthcoming visit of a man. who was due between October 5th and 8th.

Mark's so vague.

They might be, oh, just masses of color. Or they may be cloud forms or great landscapes or vague shadows or geometrical objects floating in space.

It was only a vague feeling I had.

So what made it less vague later on?

The reason is a little vague.

Your suspicions of her, your hints, your vague little threats. they all make Thea dreadfully unhappy.

I dream of vague things.

I seem to have a vague recollection that we had a couple of children.

I know it sounds rather vague, but I'm positive I can work it out.

We have a vague description of the man and the names of two night spots.

I think she has a vague idea.

News and current affairs

One could reasonably ask why anyone thinks such a vague agreement is any kind of advance at all.

The new plan relies on a questionable mix of dubious financial-engineering gimmicks and vague promises of modest Asian funding.

However vague, the alliance of civilizations idea certainly cannot do more harm than war against Islamic extremism.

Reprogenetics, by contrast, is concerned with the question of what genes an individual child will receive, not with the vague, unscientific goal of improving a society's gene pool.

David Cameron was polished but vague, and the jowly Brown came across as gun loaded with statistics.

A series of half-offers and vague promises, intended to calm the market, failed.

The wording was vague in two key respects.

These developments, of course, follow from the US-led invasion of Iraq, which turned a vague and distant threat into an imposing neighbor whose intentions towards Syria's Baathist regime are anything but friendly.

If the mood about enlargement does not improve, however, expect the Nice summit to offer only vague formulations.

In the French presidential campaign, everyone knew what Le Pen stood for; but neither Chirac nor Jospin had a clear program to offer, just vague, abstract generalities.

Indeed, when Russia demanded that agreed limitations on nuclear strategic warheads be defined in a document binding both Moscow and Washington, the US balked, preferring a vague declaration of principle instead.

Globalization and someone's vague idea - no, dream - of la dolce vita had reached the depths of Russia.

The bad news is that Lagarde's vague announcement seems to have done little to shape market expectations or make governments more comfortable requesting IMF assistance.

Even though the world economy is desperately in need of rebalancing, their declaration was deliberately vague enough to accommodate any set of domestic policies that countries might choose.

So I had vague thoughts that I might go into space sometime in 2011 - the year that Google co-founder Sergey Brin is (very) tentatively slated to go.

If we have learned one thing in the development business, it is that real reform cannot be bought with donors' money, let alone with vague promises of money.

But ethnicity as the main marker of nationality is a vague and dangerous concept, not least because it leaves all minorities out in the cold.

Few of us, however, respond as emotionally to the threat of chronic disease, a vague and elastic term that is mainly useful for organizing health services.

They are not directly censored, but they operate under the chilling knowledge that they can be shut down on vague charges at any moment.

Vague but pervasive intimidation is the main factor keeping TV personnel in line.

Unfortunately, key components of Japan's emerging security strategy remain vague and contradictory.

This vague term was finally fleshed out with a list of ten principles in September 2004, all but one of which, however, was without religious connotations.

Similarly, China is staking its claim to the South China Sea in full violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the basis of vague histories of bygone empires.

But Japan can no longer afford to be silent or vague about growing global insecurity, as the crisis next door on the Korean peninsula demonstrates.

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