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| 1. | hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused: a nebulous recollection of the meeting; a nebulous distinction between pride and conceit. |
| 2. | cloudy or cloudlike. |
| 3. | of or resembling a nebula or nebulae; nebular. |
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adj.
[Middle English, from Latin nebulōsus, from nebula, cloud; see nebh- in Indo-European roots.] neb'u·lous·ly adv., neb'u·lous·ness n. |
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nebulous
c.1386, "cloudy, misty," from L. nebulosus "cloudy, misty, foggy," from nebula (see nebula). The fig. sense of "hazy, vague, formless" is first attested 1831.
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| nebulous | |
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| 1. | lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore; "nebulous distinction between pride and conceit" [syn: cloudy] |
| 2. | of or relating to or resembling a nebula; "the nebular hypothesis of the origin of the solar system" [syn: nebular] |
| 3. | lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons"; "unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be"- Jane Austen |
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Nebulous
Neb"u*lous\, a. [L. nebulosus: cf. F. n['e]buleux. See Nebula.]1. Cloudy; hazy; misty. 2. (Astron.) Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike. -- Neb"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Neb"u*lous*ness, n.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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