Vague vs Questionable - What's the difference?
vague | questionable |
Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
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*: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
(obsolete) Inviting questions; inviting inquiry.
* Shakespeare, Hamlet :
Problematic; open to doubt or challenge.
Of dubious respectability or morality.
In obsolete terms the difference between vague and questionable
is that vague is a wandering; a vagary while questionable is inviting questions; inviting inquiry.As a noun vague
is a wandering; a vagary.As a verb vague
is to wander; to roam; to stray.vague
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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.
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- Thou comest in such a questionable shape.
- It is questionable if the universe is open or closed.
- Tiffiny's behavior is highly questionable .