| 单词 | vague |
| 释义 | vague (once / 149 pages) adj If your grasp of physics is vague and you've got a test coming up, it's time to hit the books. When something is vague, it’s unclear, murky, and hard to understand. Vague comes from the Latin vagus, which means wandering or rambling. Think of a vagabond, someone who wanders around the world with only a vague idea of where he's going. There are a few big, impressive words for vague, including ambiguous, nebulous, and tenebrous. WORD FAMILYvague: vaguely, vagueness, vaguer, vaguest+/vagueness: vaguenesses USAGE EXAMPLESRather than vague vows to get in shape, resolve to walk half an hour every day after dinner. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) Instead, we keep seeing the same vague flashes of flames and shadowy figures. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Running a marathon, say, would be too much for a non-runner to aim for, while a vague desire to 'get fit' is hard to measure. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj lacking clarity or distinctness saw a vague outline of a building through the fog Syn dim, faint, shadowy, wispy indistinct not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand 2adj not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished vague feelings of sadness a vague uneasiness Syn|Ant undefined indefinable, undefinable not capable of being precisely or readily described; not easily put into words indefinitevague or not clearly defined or stated defined clearly characterized or delimited definiteprecise; explicit and clearly defined 3adj not clearly understood or expressed "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 Syn obscure unclear not clear to the mind |
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