Vague vs Confused - What's the difference?
vague | confused | Related terms |
Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
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*2004: , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
*:Throughout the first week of his presidency, Dulles and Bissell continued to brief Kennedy on their strategy for Cuba, but the men were vague and their meetings offered little in the way of hard facts.
Not having a precise meaning.
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Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
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Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.
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Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
Lacking expression; vacant.
Not sharply outlined; hazy.
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, passage=He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.}}
Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
*Sir (c.1564-1627)
*:to set upon the vague villains
*(John Keats) (1795-1821)
*:She danced along with vague , regardless eyes.
(obsolete) A wandering; a vagary.
An indefinite expanse.
* Lowell
To wander; to roam; to stray.
* Holland
(confuse)
(lb) unable to think clearly or understand
(lb) disoriented
chaotic, jumbled or muddled
making no sense; illogical
embarrassed
As adjectives the difference between vague and confused
is that vague is not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms while confused is unable to think clearly or understand.As verbs the difference between vague and confused
is that vague is to wander; to roam; to stray while confused is past tense of confuse.As a noun vague
is a wandering; a vagary.vague
English
Adjective
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Synonyms
* obscure * ambiguousNoun
(en noun)- (Holinshed)
- The gray vague of unsympathizing sea.
Verb
(vagu)- [The soul] doth vague and wander.
