VAGUE


Meaning of VAGUE in English

adj.

VERBS

▪ be , look , sound

‘Where did you leave it?’ Isobel looked ~.

▪ become , get

She seems to be getting rather ~ as she grows older.

▪ remain

▪ leave sth

The identity of the city in the novel is deliberately left ~.

ADVERB

▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.

▪ hopelessly

Her directions were hopelessly ~.

▪ a little , slightly , etc.

▪ enough , sufficiently

It was a ~ enough suggestion for everyone to be happy with it.

▪ suitably

▪ deliberately , intentionally

You're being deliberately ~.

▪ necessarily

Since the officers knew little themselves their reassurances were necessarily ~.

▪ notoriously

The law is notoriously ~ on this point.

▪ frustratingly

PREPOSITION

▪ about

I am ~ about what happened during the rest of the night.

▪ as to

I was suitably ~ as to exactly how I had acquired the money.

▪ in

The statement was ~ in its wording.

Vague is used with these nouns: ↑ allusion , ↑ answer , ↑ concept , ↑ description , ↑ feeling , ↑ generalization , ↑ gesture , ↑ hint , ↑ hope , ↑ idea , ↑ impression , ↑ language , ↑ law , ↑ memory , ↑ notion , ↑ outline , ↑ possibility , ↑ promise , ↑ recollection , ↑ reference , ↑ semblance , ↑ sense , ↑ shape , ↑ suggestion , ↑ suspicion , ↑ term , ↑ unease , ↑ wording

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