noun
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A wandering; a vagary.
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An indefinite expanse.
verb
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To wander; to roam; to stray.
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To become vague or act in a vague manner.
adjective
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Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
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Not having a precise meaning.
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a vague term of abuse
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Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
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I haven’t the vaguest idea.
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Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.
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a vague longing
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Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
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Lacking expression; vacant.
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Not sharply outlined; hazy.
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Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
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Examples of vague in a Sentence
She rolled her eyes at the vague response.
He was vague to say the least.
I don't have a vague recollection of either game.
The plan was vague on detail, leaving them wondering what to do next.
If the answers to your questions sound vague, ask for clarification.
Even her nightmares had been vague, with an unidentified entity stalking her.
There were vague promises of "lists of extremists" upon which your name will not be found.
The week after this I noticed she was very emotional and became vague.
Her words about Gabe were troubling, and he couldn't determine if she was purposely vague or really didn't know; her pretty face was puzzled, and he frowned.
Suddenly, Deidre's vague story of lost love and Gabe's bitterness towards her clicked.
His own messengers brought him vague news of unrest from the battlefront and news of there being new opponents at the battle.
The Australians believed in spirits, generally of an evil nature, and had vague notions of an after-life.
Its a rather vague term to put into Google.
I'm feeling very vague at the moment.
The painting showed a vague resemblance to the Mayflower in parts.
His mother wasn't doing well and from what we could gather from his vague conversations, she wasn't expected to recover.
Something vague and confused, which he could not at all account for, had come over him with the capture of that officer and the blow he had dealt him.
While she calls for activity and alliances to fight the TNCs, she is hopelessly vague about what kind of action is needed.
He seemed vague about the source of the quotation.
And those thoughts, though now vague and indefinite, again possessed his soul.
There is a vague liberal notion about letting people have what they want.
While, again, legitimately insisting upon personality as a fundamental constituent in any true theory of reality, the relation between human individualities and the divine Person is left vague and obscure; nor is it easy to see how the existence of several individualities - human or divine - in one cosmos is theoretically possible.
The creeds and confessions are usually vague.
At the lowest level we have vague movements of large groups of muscles, as in "bier-divination," where the murderer or his residence is inferred from the actions of the bearers; of a similar character but combined with more specialized action are many kinds of witch seeking.
I have only a vague recollection of either game.
Offers, flattering but equally vague, were made from France, on the part of the bishop of Bayeux, and even of Francis I.
Poland had established a sort of suzerainty over Moldavia as early as the end of the 14th century; but at best it was a loose and vague overlordship which the Hospodars repudiated whenever they were strong enough to do so.
Alexander, exaggerating the part he had played in the final struggle, and with some vague idea of nationality in his brain, demanded that the whole of Poland should be added to the Russian dominions.
In return for a vague recognition of the sovereignty of France in Africa, this treaty gave up to the amir the whole of western Algeria.
The mention of Israel on the stele of Merenptah, discovered by Petrie in 1896 (" Israel [Ysirael] is desolated; its seed [or] is not "), is too vague and indefinite in its terms to throw any light on the question of the Exodus.
Eschatology was universalized (God was recognized as the creator and moral governor of all tic the world), individualized (God's judgment was directed, not to nations in a future age, but to individuals in a future life), transcendentalized (the future age was more and more contrasted with the present, and the transition from the one to the other was not expected as the result of historical movements, but of miraculous divine acts), and dogmatized (the attempt was made to systematize in some measure the vague and varied prophetic anticipations).
The earliest testimony in favour of this tradition is the vague statement of Gregory of Nazianzus that Mark preached in Italy, but its existence in the 7th century is shown by the fact that in A.D.
It has been assumed that these seven kings exercised a certain superiority over a large part of England, but if such superiority existed it is certain that it was extremely vague and was unaccompanied by any unity of organization.
Early writers on natural history used the term in its vague logical sense without limiting it to a special category in the hierarchy of classification.
But it is the duty of the individual to his possible offspring, and not any vague notions as to the pressure of the national population on subsistence, that will be adequate to influence conduct.
In this vague design he was encouraged by Gerbert, the greatest scholar of the day, whom, as Silvester II., he raised to the papal throne.
Our earlier notices of Sicily, of Sicels and Sicans, in the Homeric poems and elsewhere, are vague and legendary.
Their vague pantheism landed them in moral confusion, and many of them were marked by fierce fanaticism.
It is probable that she was originally a personification of some department of nature; but the traces of her primitive significance are vague, and have been interpreted to suit various theories.
The vague Egyptian year, however, continued in use in native documents for some centuries along with the Alexandrian lonian year.
Corroboration has been sought by Mahler, Sethe and Petrie in the dates of new moons, of warlike and other expeditions, and of high Nile, but their evidence so far is too vague and uncertain to affect the question seriously.
Beyond the XIIth Dynasty estimates must again be vague rhe spacing of the years on the Palermo stone has given rise to some calculations for the early dynasties.
The physiology of this group of "states" is, as regards the real understanding of their production, eminently vague (see also Hypnotism).
Unfortunately everything had been left so vague, that it was an easy matter for ultra-royalists like Svane and Nansen to ignore the privileges of the Estates, and even the Estates themselves.
Within two months of Charles's death he had yielded to the impetuosity of Argyll and others of the exiles and to vague invitations from England.
The seven earlier ones are all more or less obsolescent, and their very number shows that the meaning of the word was very vague.
The Pharisees were occupied with the piecemeal realization of the dreams of their supposed opponents, which gain a vague glory from their being far off.
In June 1127, William, duke of Apulia, grandson of Robert Guiscard, died childless, having apparently made some vague promise of the succession to Roger.
In many cases indeed an image even of a most familiar scene is exceedingly vague and inaccurate.
He was, as he called himself, a " mystic "; and his creed was too vague to be put into any formula beyond a condemnation of atheism.