Word Finder - vaguer

definition

Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.

synonyms

• unclear

definition

Not having a precise meaning.

example

a vague term of abuse

synonyms

• ambiguous
• equivocal

definition

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

example

I haven’t the vaguest idea.

synonyms

• ambiguous
• equivocal
• indistinct
• obscure

definition

Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.

example

a vague longing

definition

Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.

synonyms

• dazed

definition

Lacking expression; vacant.

synonyms

• vacant
• vacuous

definition

Not sharply outlined; hazy.

synonyms

• fuzzy
• hazy
• ill-defined

definition

Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.

synonyms

• erratic
• roaming
• unsettled
• vagabond
• vagrant

Over against this " valid " mechanism, in some truer but vaguer region, Kant placed free will; and so left things.

This is a vaguer form of control than a protectorate, and frequently amounts merely to an agreement amongst civilized powers to respect the right of one of their number to exercise government within a certain area, if it should decide to do so at any future time.

Here we have a series of celebrations representing the occupations of the successive seasons, addressed sometimes to numina who developed later on into the great gods of the state, such as Jupiter, Mars or Ceres, sometimes to vaguer divinities who remained always indefinite and rustic in character, such as Pales and Consus.

The authority to grant such discharge was conceived to be included in the power of binding and loosing committed by Christ to His Church; and when in the course of time the vaguer theological conceptions of the first ages of Christianity assumed scientific form and shape at the hands of the Schoolmen, the doctrine came to prevail that this discharge of the sinner's debt was made through an application to the offender of what was called the " Treasure of the Church " (Thurston, p. 315).

Another such guarantee of a vaguer character is that which the North Sea powers recently entered into for the maintenance of the status quo of their respective North Sea territories; and the similar one entered into by the Mediterranean powers for the same objects in the Mediterranean.

As a whole, we gain the Impression that a really distinct and more primitive stage of hieroglyphic writing by a substantially vaguer notation of words lay not far behind the time of the 1st Dynasty.

Many pamphlets date from this period, as does La Creation (1870), a third book of the class of Ahasverus and Merlin, but even vaguer, dealing not with history, legend, or philosophy, but with physical science for the most part.

Yet the " Five Dissenting Brethren " would have failed to secure toleration even for themselves as Congregationalists - such was the dread felt by the assembly for Anabaptists, Antinomians, and other " sectaries " - had it not been for the vaguer, but widespread Independency existing in parliament and in the army.