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Vaguest

Vague \Vague\ (v[=a]g), a. [Compar. Vaguer (v[=a]g"[~e]r); superl. Vaguest.] [F. vague, or L. vagus. See Vague, v. i.]

  1. Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. [Archaic] ``To set upon the vague villains.''
    --Hayward.

    She danced along with vague, regardless eyes.
    --Keats.

  2. 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.
    --Hawthorne.

  3. 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.

Wiktionary
vaguest

a. (en-superlative of: vague)

Usage examples of "vaguest".

As usual, I haven't the vaguest idea of what your next assignment will be.

I haven't the vaguest idea, so far, what kind of hold he has on my father's fortune.

Mark Bennett also knew they didn't have the vaguest idea about its mission at any given time.

If he comes up with anything, we'll be the first to know, but he doesn't have the vaguest idea of what he's looking for.

Frankly, Mark didn't have the vaguest idea what Manchester would be close enough to.

He offered his help interest free and with only the vaguest of strings.

There was only the slightest change in the heat-emission pattern—the vaguest hint of an outline.

Knowing what we know, if we're spotted in the vaguest questionable circumstances we'll be killed on the spot!

I’ve read you, seen you, expounding on your esoteric interpretations of complex legal matters, assaulting every decent thing the courts of this country have decreed in the last thirty years, when you haven’t the vaguest idea what it is to be poor, or hungry, or have an unwanted mass in your belly you neither anticipated nor can provide a life for.

And as far as the CG is concerned, he’s only been given the vaguest scenario, no names, nothing, only a trap.

I don't have the vaguest idea as to why he might want to murder the Baron and Lady Mondegreen, but I can swear that falling asleep on guard isn't his custom.

The idea only occurred to me when both of you were on your way into lowertown, and I realized that I didn't have the vaguest idea of how to stop a fight, except by killing everybody involved.