Crossword clues for vaguer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vague \Vague\ (v[=a]g), a. [Compar. Vaguer (v[=a]g"[~e]r); superl. Vaguest.] [F. vague, or L. vagus. See Vague, v. i.]
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Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. [Archaic] ``To set upon the vague villains.''
--Hayward.She danced along with vague, regardless eyes.
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Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition.
This faith is neither a mere fantasy of future glory, nor a vague ebullition of feeling.
--I. Taylor.The poet turned away, and gave himself up to a sort of vague revery, which he called thought.
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Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as, a vague report.
Some legend strange and vague.
--Longfellow.Vague year. See Sothiac year, under Sothiac.
Syn: Unsettled; indefinite; unfixed; ill-defined; ambiguous; hazy; loose; lax; uncertain.
Usage examples of "vaguer".
Never could she be at peace with the love within her--love of something that was not self, of something that seemed vaguer than God, as if it had entered into God and made him Love--unless she mounted upwards during her little span of life.
Sara remembered how the shadowbats, once drunk on the nectar of her rose, had become even vaguer than artifice had intended, as if they were attempting to change into something other than bats.
He was scratching away at his notebook, making bold estimates of direction and even vaguer guesses of slope, as the clinometer of his Brunton compass had been useless in the wilderness of the Chaos.
Chiefly he was afraid of being caught before he could accomplish his purpose, but behind this was a vaguer but larger fear of the awfulness of his crime.
Although it was much vaguer, that wonderful fragrance was in the air again.
It was something less unlikely than the first, harder to fight than the second, and much vaguer than either.
Delving ever deeper, he recovered older, vaguer recollections inherited from his father and from the charismatics that had come before him.
And even vaguer recollections of having lost it again in an all-night hazard game.
The more his mother pressed him for details the vaguer were his answers.
It is perhaps a certain uneasy consciousness of danger, a suspicion that weakness of soul cannot wield these strong words, that makes debility avoid them, committing itself rather, as if by some pre-established affinity, to the vaguer Latinised vocabulary.
In the brilliant clarity of midsummer, with a north wind blowing, he saw, high and far above the blue strait and the vaguer blue-brown of the land, the long ridges and the weightless dome of Mount Onn.
There seemed to be other, vaguer charges as well, having to do with breach of security, sabotage, false representations, kidnapping, and treason.
His image of England was the view from the village, the tracks that led away in each direction to impenetrable distances, ever mistier, vaguer and more daunting.
When a silver ball of light blossomed above the camp, dimly in mid air Rhodry could see a horde of Wildfolk mobbing what seemed to be the misty and ill-defined figure of a wolf, and an even vaguer indication of something riding on its back.