Englishvague
adjective
1 they could just make out the vague shape of a ship in the mist:
indistinct, indefinite, indeterminate, unclear;
hazy, cloudy, fuzzy, misty, lacking definition, blurred, blurry, out of focus, murky, foggy, faint, shadowy, dim, obscure, nebulous, shapeless, formless, unformed, amorphous;
rare nebulose.
▷antonyms clear, precise.
2 a vague description:
imprecise, inexact, rough, approximate, inexplicit, non-specific, loose, ill-defined, generalized, ambiguous, equivocal, hazy, woolly;
sketchy, incomplete, inadequate, imperfect;
superficial, cursory, perfunctory.
3 I'm a little vague about the details:
unclear, hazy, uncertain, unsure, undecided;
puzzled, baffled, mystified, bemused, bewildered, confused, nonplussed;
indecisive, irresolute, hesitant, tentative, wavering, vacillating;
informal iffy.
▷antonyms clear, certain.
4 they had only vague plans:
uncertain, undecided, yet to be decided, unsure, unclear, unsettled, indefinite, indeterminate, unknown, unestablished, unconfirmed, unresolved, unascertained, pending, outstanding, in the balance, up in the air, speculative.
▷antonyms firm.
5 she was so vague in everyday life:
absent-minded, forgetful, with a mind like a sieve, disorganized, unsystematic, unreliable, undependable;
dreamy, inattentive, abstracted, with one's head in the clouds, scatterbrained, feather-brained, feather-headed, birdbrained, empty-headed, erratic, giddy;
informal dizzy, dippy, not with it;
British, informal dappy, scatty.
▷antonyms organized, together.
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