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Definition of Vague
Vague

Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.

Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition.

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

An indefinite expanse.

To wander; to roam; to stray.

A wandering; a vagary.

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Vague Quotations

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
Mary Kay Ash

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis de Tocqueville

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
Pablo Picasso

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
J. P. Morgan

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
John Updike

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
Lynn Abbey

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister Crowley

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
J. L. Austin

Vague Translations

vague in German is unklar, undeutliche, undeutlich


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