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vaguely

Syllables: vague·ly/ˈveɪɡli/

vaguely adverb: in a vague manner.

Adverb

vaguely (comparative more vaguely, superlative most vaguely)

  1. In a vague manner.
    • He looked vaguely around the room, as if lost.
    • The youth pointed vaguely. "Over there," he replied.1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter X, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 105
  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.

vaguely meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

vaguely in Hindi

अस्पष्ट रूप से

vaguely in Tamil

vaguely, unintentionally, at random
சும்மா cummā

vaguely in Marathi

अस्पष्टपणे

vaguely in Urdu

مبہم طور پر
More languagesFewer languages
vaguely in Bengali
অস্পষ্টভাবে
vaguely in Malayalam
അവ്യക്തമായി, തുമ്പില്ലാതെ, നിർലക്ഷ്യം
vaguely in Kannada
ಅಸ್ಪಷ್ಟವಾಗಿ
vaguely in Gujarati
અસ્પષ્ટપણે

Examples of vaguely in a sentence

  • The band were banging out a vaguely recognisable version of the Star Spangled Banner.
  • The Bible vaguely describes the mark of Cain; it does not specify its exact nature.
  • I had a semilucid dream in which I was vaguely aware that I was dreaming.

All 40 example sentences with vaguely

Forms of vaguely

comparativemore vaguely
superlativemost vaguely

Origin of vaguely

From vague + -ly.

Questions about vaguely

What does vaguely mean?
Vaguely means in a vague manner.
What is vaguely in Hindi?
Vaguely in Hindi is अस्पष्ट रूप से. See Vaguely meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is vaguely?
Vaguely is an adverb.
How do you pronounce vaguely?
Vaguely is pronounced /ˈveɪɡli/.

Words near vaguely in the dictionary

  1. vaguebooked
  2. vaguebooking
  3. vaguebooks
  4. vagued
  5. vagueish
  6. vaguely
  7. vaguen
  8. vaguened
  9. vagueness
  10. vaguenesses
  11. vaguening

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vaguely (page history and authors); vaguely (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); சும்மா (Tamil) (page history and authors); vaguely (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vaguely (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vaguely (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vaguely (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vaguely (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vaguely (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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