vague

Get Babylon's Translation Software! Free Download Now!
Babylon 8 - Your all-in-one solution
Award winning translation software trusted by millions. Translate from any language to any language.
View Demo


BabylonEnglish English dictionaryDownload this dictionary
vague
adj. hazy, faint, indistinct; ambiguous; uncertain


Wikipedia English The Free EncyclopediaDownload this dictionary
Vagueness
Ambiguity is one way in which the meanings of words and phrases can be unclear, but there is another way, which is different from ambiguity: vagueness. One example of a vague concept is the concept of a heap. Two or three grains of sand is not a heap, but a thousand is. How many grains of sand does it take to make a heap? There is no clear line. (See the paradox of the heap.)
See more at Wikipedia.org...

This article uses material from Wikipedia® and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License

WordNet 2.0 DictionaryDownload this dictionary
vague
Adjective
1. not clearly understood or expressed; "an obscure turn of phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard; "their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"- P.A.Sorokin; "vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science"- John Locke
(synonym) obscure
(similar) unclear
2. not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished; "an undefined term"; "undefined authority"; "some undefined sense of excitement"; "vague feelings of sadness"; "a vague uneasiness"
(synonym) undefined
(similar) indefinable, undefinable
(see-also) indefinite
3. lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood"
(synonym) dim, faint, shadowy, wispy
(similar) indistinct


BabylonFrench English dictionaryDownload this dictionary
vague
adj. hazy, vague, undefined; indefinite, indeterminate, indistinguishable; inscrutable, incomprehensible; indistinct, formless; obscure, shadowy
 
vague (f)
n. wave, surge, tide; vagueness, haziness, dimness; upsurge, outbreak
 
vaguer
v. wander, roam

BabylonSpanish English dictionaryDownload this dictionary
vagar
v. wander, roam; straggle

Define vague

Translate vague





vague in Chinese | | vague in French | vague in Italian | vague in Spanish | vague in Dutch | vague in Portuguese | vague in German | vague in Russian | vague in Japanese | vague in Greek | vague in Korean | vague in Turkish | vague in Hebrew | vague in Arabic | vague in Croatian | vague in Serbian | vague in Swedish