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Webster 1913 Edition


Vaguely

Vague′ly

,
adv.
In a vague manner.
What he
vaguely
hinted at, but dared not speak.
Hawthorne.

Definition 2024


vaguely

vaguely

English

Adverb

vaguely (comparative more vaguely, superlative most vaguely)

  1. In a vague manner.
    He looked vaguely around the room, as if lost.
  2. Loosely; more or less; somewhat.
    • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
      Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.

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