Definitions for vague
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. obscure, vagueadjective

   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

2. undefined, vagueadjective

   not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished

   "an undefined term"; "undefined authority"; "some undefined sense of excitement"; "vague feelings of sadness"; "a vague uneasiness"

3. dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispyadjective

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. vagueadjective

   not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.

2. vagueadjective

   not having a precise meaning.

   a vague term of abuse

3. vagueadjective

   not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.

4. vagueadjective

   not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.

   a vague longing

5. vagueadjective

   not thinking or expressing one's thoughts clearly or precisely.

6. vagueadjective

   lacking expression; vacant.

7. vagueadjective

   not sharply outlined; hazy.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. vague

   In linguistics and philosophy, a vague predicate is one which gives rise to borderline cases. For example, the English adjective "tall" is vague since it is not clearly true or false for someone of middling height. By contrast, the word "prime" is not vague since every number is definitively either prime or not. Vagueness is commonly diagnosed by a predicate's ability to give rise to the Sorites paradox. Vagueness is separate from ambiguity, in which an expression has multiple denotations. For instance the word "bank" is ambiguous since it can refer either to a river bank or to a financial institution, but there are no borderline cases between both interpretations. Vagueness is a major topic of research in philosophical logic, where it serves as a potential challenge to classical logic. Work in formal semantics has sought to provide a compositional semantics for vague expressions in natural language. Work in philosophy of language has addressed implications of vagueness for the theory of meaning, while metaphysicians have considered whether reality itself is vague.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. vague

   Vague refers to something that is uncertain, unclear, or imprecise in meaning or details. It lacks specificity and may be difficult to understand or interpret accurately. A vague statement or concept leaves room for interpretation or ambiguity, often due to a lack of specific information or detail provided.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Vagueverb

   wandering; vagrant; vagabond

2. Vagueverb

   unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition

3. Vagueverb

   proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as, a vague report

4. Vaguenoun

   an indefinite expanse

5. Vagueverb

   to wander; to roam; to stray

6. Vaguenoun

   a wandering; a vagary

7. Etymology: [F. vaguer, L. vagari, fr. vagus roaming.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Vague

   vāg, adj. unsettled: indefinite: uncertain: of doubtful origin: not thinking clearly.—v.i. (obs.) to wander.—n. indefinite expanse.—adv. Vague′ly.—n. Vague′ness. [Fr.,—L. vagus, wandering.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. VAGUE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Vague is ranked #82317 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Vague surname appeared 229 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Vague.
   
   86.9% or 199 total occurrences were White.
   5.6% or 13 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.6% or 6 total occurrences were Black.
   2.6% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'vague' in Adjectives Frequency: #758

How to pronounce vague?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say vague in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of vague in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of vague in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of vague in a Sentence

1. Ramon Llamas:

   Body readiness is clever because over-exercising can be a problem and lead to injuries down the road -- and under-exercising leads to being out of shape, this provides proof to the user what their body is ready for or what it needs, taking the guesswork out of how a user is thinking about how their body is doing. It uses the user's own data to come up with a score instead of comparing to some vague and sometimes inaccurate set of information.

2. Manuel Valls:

   Manuel Valls is being deliberately vague when he talks about a fairer distribution of foreigners washing up on Europe's shores - which is tantamount to an increase in the migratory burden already weighing on France.

3. Andrew Knapp:

   At the core, we argued that people of ordinary intelligence couldn't understand what kinds of crimes could trigger removal, vague laws lend themselves to arbitrary enforcement, which can be used in a discriminatory way.

4. Justice Department:

   The record evidence demonstrates that Harvard's race-based admissions process significantly disadvantages Asian-American applicants compared to applicants of other racial groups -- including both white applicants and applicants from other racial minority groups, the evidence, moreover, shows that Harvard provides no meaningful criteria to cabin its use of race ; uses a vague' personal rating' that harms Asian-American applicants' chances for admission and may be infected with racial bias ; engages in unlawful racial balancing ; and has never seriously considered race-neutral alternatives in its more than 45 years of using race to make admissions decisions.

5. Szelena Gray:

   We as a movement have not had a great example to point to when people ask what kind of reform are you talking about, what is the actual path forward, we often have to speak in vague terms because there aren't a lot of solutions to point to and say this is working really well, let's grow this.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=vague
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Vague
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vague
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vague
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=vague
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html