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Vague   /veɪg/   Listen
Vague

adjective
(compar. vaguer; superl. vaguest)
1.
Not clearly understood or expressed.  Synonym: obscure.  "An impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit" , "Their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear" , "Vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science"
2.
Not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished.  Synonym: undefined.  "Undefined authority" , "Some undefined sense of excitement" , "Vague feelings of sadness" , "A vague uneasiness"
3.
Lacking clarity or distinctness.  Synonyms: dim, faint, shadowy, wispy.  "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"



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"Vague" Quotes from Famous Books



... lesson which you are going to study, visions of a face, or thoughts about some social engagement. These marginal objects are in the mind even when you conscientiously focus your mind upon the history lesson, and, though vague, they try to force their way into the focus and become clear. The task of paying attention, then, consists in maintaining the desired object at the centre of the mental field and keeping the distractions away. With this definition of attention, we see that ...
— How to Use Your Mind • Harry D. Kitson

... nightmare of many horrors, had lain down and had slept with that dreadful sound in her ears from the very beginning of things. The life she had led before these ghastly happenings had become so vague a memory that it almost seemed to belong to a previous existence, to an earlier and a happier era. As in a dream she now recalled the vision of her English school-life. It lay not a year behind her, but she felt herself to have changed so fundamentally ...
— The Way of an Eagle • Ethel M. Dell

... or two, you will begin to feel a vague, general impulse to move your feet. Obey the impulse. Take a few slow steps in any direction that seems easy to you. Sometimes this will take you in an opposite direction from that of the chair, but it will "get you going," and you will soon begin to feel that the direction ...
— Clairvoyance and Occult Powers • Swami Panchadasi

... whole my relations with all that portion of mankind who inhabit the islands of the Pacific, the northwest coast of America, and the northeast coast of the old continent, were rather loose, and generally in an unsettled and vague condition; and it appeared to me that I had been singularly favored in having a man so well adapted to their regeneration thrown as it were by Providence, and in a manner so unusual, directly in my way. I now frankly proposed, therefore, to ...
— The Monikins • J. Fenimore Cooper

... day will come, Lynette. I believe that day will come," he said, holding the beautiful vague gaze with his. "If every drop in these veins of mine, poured out, could bring it more quickly, it should be hastened so; if every faculty of my body, every cell in my brain, bent to the achievement of one end, expended to the last unit of energy, in the restoration ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves


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