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say it: vayg
vague is an adjective meaning "not clearly expressed or understood". It is pronounced /ˈveɪɡ/ — vayg. It carries 3 recorded senses.
not clearly expressed or understood
“an obscure turn of phrase”
“an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit”
“their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear”
“vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science”
not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished
“an undefined term”
“undefined authority”
“some undefined sense of excitement”
“vague feelings of sadness”
“a vague uneasiness”
lacking clarity or distinctness
“a dim figure in the distance”
“only a faint recollection”
“shadowy figures in the gloom”
“saw a vague outline of a building through the fog”
“a few wispy memories of childhood”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vague come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.