Word Meanings - VAGUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. "To set upon the vague villains." Hayward. She danced along with vague, regardless eyes. Keats. 2. Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition. This faith is

Additional info about word: VAGUE

1. Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. "To set upon the vague villains." Hayward. She danced along with vague, regardless eyes. Keats. 2. Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition. This faith is neither a mere fantasy of future glory, nor a vague ebullition of feeling. I. Taylor. The poet turned away, and gave himself up to a sort of vague revery, which he called thought. Hawthorne. 3. Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as, a vague report. Some legend strange and value. Longfellow. Vague year. See Sothiac year, under Sothiac. Syn. -- Unsettled; indefinite; unfixed; ill-defined; ambiguous; hazy; loose; lax; uncertain.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VAGUE)

• Ambiguous
• Equivocal
• vague
• doubtful
• enigmatical
• uncertain
• obscure
• unintelligible
• perplexing
• indistinct
• dubious
• Lax
• Loose
• incoherent
• dissolute
• licentious
• unprincipled
• remiss
• flabby
• slack
• Unbound
• detached
• flowing
• scattered
• sparse
• incompact
• inexact
• rambling
• Pointless
• Vague
• vapid
• aimless
• inexpressive
• feeble
• Random
• Haphazard
• stray
• chance
• wild
• purposeless
• unpremeditated
• casual
• accidental

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VAGUE)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain
• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to VAGUE)

• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• DUBIOUSNESS
  State of being dubious.
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• UNBOUNDED
  Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• REMISSORY
  Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
• CASUALISM
  The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance.
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• SCRAMBLING
  Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
  Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.