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nebulous

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 In the form of a cloud or haze; hazy. 2 Vague or ill-defined. 3 Relating to a nebula or nebulae.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nebulous \Neb"u*lous\, a. [L. nebulosus: cf. F. n['e]buleux. See Nebula .] Cloudy; hazy; misty. (Astron.) Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike. [1913 Webster] -- Neb"u*lous*ly , adv. -- Neb"u*lous*ness , n.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore; "nebulous distinction between pride and conceit" [syn: cloudy , nebulose ] lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons"; "unfixed as ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The rules are too nebulous to be applied consistently. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A nebulous collective leadership, including the chiefs of the powerful armed forces, may still be holding the balance of power. ▪ As indicated ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "cloudy, misty," from Latin nebulosus "cloudy, misty, foggy, full of vapor," from nebula (see nebula ). The figurative sense of "hazy, vague, formless" is first attested 1831. Astronomical sense is from 1670s. Related: Nebulously ; nebulousness ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Nebulous may refer too: Nebulous (astronomy), cloudy or cloud-like. A reference to nebula . Nebulous , a post-apocalyptic science fiction comedy written by Graham Duff, the series premiered in the United Kingdom on BBC Radio 4. Nebulus Nebulus (game) , ...

Usage examples of nebulous.

This was the person who had driven my car through the night five months before--the person I had not seen since that brief call when he had forgotten the oldtime doorbell signal and stirred such nebulous fears in me--and now he filled me with the same dim feeling of blasphemous alienage and ineffable cosmic hideousness.

This was the person who had driven my car through the night five months before - the person I had not seen since that brief call when he had forgotten the oldtime doorbell signal and stirred such nebulous fears in me - and now he filled me with the same dim feeling of blasphemous alienage and ineffable cosmic hideousness.

Dicky, unvanquished master of the nebulous answer on almost any subject except the gastronomic merits of expensive restaurants.

And if we ascend into the history of the past, we shall find ample testimony that the planetary matter now composing the members of the solar system, was once one vast nebulous cloud of atoms, partaking of the vorticose motion of the fluid involving them.

In the nebulous depths a silver bull cavorted, his head wreated with flowers.

Now she was in a region of ambivalent drives, and of nebulous and stillborn wishes, anxieties, doubts interwoven with regressive beliefs and libido wishes of a fantastic nature.

Since then they had been close, and sometimes Flossie talked to Shorty about things that bothered her, or else she just described to him the nebulous thoughts floating like lazy tropical fish through her brain, and she never felt Shorty was mocking her, not even silently in his mind.

I think, her way of expressing various nebulous and unformulated suspicions.

Yet this love, so unceasingly sewn, she knew when she came to consider and marvel, was more of Billy than of the nebulous, ungraspable new bit of life that eluded her fondest attempts at visioning.

Other folks were eager to embrace Renard as the suspect in the Bichon killingbetter a tangible evil than a nebulous one.

At successive stages of the concentration, rings after the manner of those of Saturn separated from the disklike mass, each breaking up and consolidating into a body of nebulous matter which followed in the same path, generally forming rings which became by the same process the moons or satellites of the sphere.

Especially if the nebulous and unfathomable Maybeso was waiting to greet them at the other end of their terrifying plunge.

Our sponsors in the Defense Department could hardly tell a desperate major general whose division was headed for Recife without anti-tank guns that rail space was needed for something nebulous but infinitely more important.

But now, in the unillusioned light and broody quiet of a Sabbath morn, the cold, silent mill, shorn of its nebulous halo, looked old and worn--an aged actor off the stage.

Milky Way, although a complete ring, is broad and diffuse on one side through one-half its course -- that half alone containing nebulæ -- and relatively narrow and well defined on the opposite side, the author of this singular speculation avers that these facts can best be explained by supposing that the invisible universe consists of two interpenetrating parts, one of which is a chaos of indefinite extent, strewn with stars and nebulous dust, and the other a long, broad but comparatively thin cluster of stars, including the sun as one of its central members.