vague
/veɪɡ/ adjective B1- Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
- Not having a precise meaning. · a vague term of abuse
- Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight. · only a vague notion of what’s needed· a vague hint of a thickening waistline
- Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious. · a vague longing
- Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
- Lacking expression; vacant.
- Not sharply outlined; hazy.
- Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
Comparative vaguer · Superlative vaguest
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“Oh, I _beg_ your pardon!” she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as she could, for the accident of the goldfish kept running in her head, and she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once and put back into the jury-box, or they would die.
She had a genius for friendship; girl friends she had in plenty; but she had a vague consciousness that masculine friendship might also be a good thing to round out one’s conceptions of companionship and furnish broader standpoints of judgment and comparison.
He could see that she was vastly impressed by this vague talk, so he endorsed his pose by random insinuations concerning great wealth, and mentioned familiarly a few names that are handled reverently by the proletariat.
There were, as he had said, marks upon the bed, but they were hopelessly blurred and vague.
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