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vague
adjectives
a vague idea/notion
• The students only had a vague idea of what they were supposed to do.
a vague sense/feeling
• She had a vague feeling that she had let something important slip away.
a vague recollection/memory
• I have only a vague recollection of what the house looked like.
a vague impression
• Everything happens so quickly, though, that all you are left with is a vague impression.
a vague suspicion
• A vague suspicion began to tug at Benny's mind.
a vague unease/dread
• I felt a vague unease.
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adj. VERBS be, look, sound ‘Where did you leave it?’ Isobel looked vague. | become, get She seems to be getting rather vague as she grows older. | remain | leave sth The identity of the city in the novel is deliberately left vague. ADV. extremely, hopelessly, very Her directions were hopelessly vague. | a bit, fairly, a little, pretty, quite, rather, somewhat | enough, sufficiently It was a vague enough concept for the liberals to unite around. | suitably | deliberately, intentionally You're being deliberately vague. | necessarily Since the officers knew little themselves their reassurances were necessarily vague. | inherently an inherently vague and subjective concept | notoriously The law is notoriously vague on this point. PREP. about I am vague about what happened during the rest of the night. | as to I was suitably vague as to exactly how I had acquired the money. | in The statement was vague in its wording.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary