nebulousEnglishOxford English Thesaurusnebulous adjective 1 the figure was still nebulous—she couldn't quite see it: indistinct, indefinite, unclear, vague, hazy, cloudy, fuzzy, misty, lacking definition, blurred, blurry, out of focus, foggy, faint, shadowy, dim, obscure, shapeless, formless, unformed, amorphous; rare nebulose. ▷antonyms clear. 2 his nebulous ideas about salvation: vague, ill-defined, unclear, hazy, uncertain, indefinite, indeterminate, imprecise, unformed, muddled, confused, ambiguous, inchoate, opaque, muddy. ▷antonyms well defined.nebulous Oxford Dictionary of English