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adjective

Vague adj. (compar. vaguer; superl. vaguest)

Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. (Archaic) "To set upon the vague villains." "She danced along with vague, regardless eyes."

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." "The poet turned away, and gave himself up to a sort of vague revery, which he called thought."

Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as, a vague report. "Some legend strange and vague."

Vague year. See Sothiac year, under Sothiac.

Synonyms: Unsettled; indefinite; unfixed; ill-defined; ambiguous; hazy; loose; lax; uncertain.

noun

Vague n. An indefinite expanse. (R.) "The gray vague of unsympathizing sea."

Vague n. A wandering; a vagary. (Obs.)

verb

Vague v. i. To wander; to roam; to stray. (Obs.) "(The soul) doth vague and wander."

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"Vague" Quotes from Famous Books

... this was a lie; he was very certain that he was about to be witness to a deed of the darkest treachery. A vague feeling of shrinking and horror froze his limbs, and made his tongue swell in his mouth. Yet he was perfectly powerless to warn; a sign or a word would have meant his ...

— A Friend of Caesar - A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. • William Stearns Davis

... or copy of it in me;—when, in fine, I have within me an empty and fictitious consciousness only. I admit also that I know nothing of 'the Good per se,' or 'the True per se,' that I even have nothing but a vague notion of what such terms stand for. I declare that it revolts me when people seek to obtrude upon me the Will which wills nothing, this empty nut of independence and freedom in absolute indifference, and accuse me of atheism, the true ...

— A Lie Never Justifiable • H. Clay Trumbull

... home, yet the four—young Hugh on crutches now—clung to each other, and on the last afternoon she and Brock were alone for an hour. They had sat just here after tennis, in the hazy October weather, and pink-brown leaves had floated down with a thin, pungent fragrance and lay on the stone steps in vague patterns. Scarlet geraniums bloomed back of Brock's head and made a satisfying harmony with the copper of his tanned face. They fell to silence after much talking, and finally she got out something which had been in her mind but which it had been ...

— Joy in the Morning • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

... playhouse somewhere in the suburbs, I think towards Shoreditch or Clerkenwell."[117] By "at the Green Curtain" Aubrey means, of course, "at the sign of the Green Curtain"; but the evidence of Steevens and of Aubrey is too vague and uncertain ...

— Shakespearean Playhouses - A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration • Joseph Quincy Adams

... Charter is one of the most famous documents in history. Regarded as the foundation of English civil liberty, it also stands as the historic prototype of later declarations of human freedom in various lands. In the Great Charter, as observed by Green, "the vague expressions of the older charters were exchanged for precise and elaborate provisions. The Great Charter marks the transition from the age of traditional rights to the age of written legislation, of parliaments and statutes, which was soon ...

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