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vague

• (s) 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
  obscure,
• (a) not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished
  • an undefined term
  • undefined authority
  • some undefined sense of excitement
  • vague feelings of sadness
  • a vague uneasiness
  undefined,
• (s) 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
  dim, faint, shadowy, wispy,

Synonyms

obscure undefined dim faint shadowy wispy

Antonyms

defined

See also

indefinite

Words of close approximity