Nebulous Definition

nĕbyə-ləs
adjective
Cloudy, misty, or hazy.
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Nebular.

Webster's New World
Unclear; vague; indefinite.
Webster's New World
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a nebula.
American Heritage

In the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.

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Origin of Nebulous

  • From Middle English, from Latin nebulōsus (“full of mist, foggy, cloudy"), from nebula (“mist, vapour, cloud"), from Proto-Indo-European *nébÊ°os (“cloud, vapor, fog, moist, sky"). Cognate with Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, “cloud"), Old High German nebul (“cloud, fog") (German Nebel), Old English nifol, neowol (“dark, gloomy, obscure, precipitous, prone"). More at neveling, nuel.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Latin nebulōsus from nebula cloud nebh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Nebulous Sentence Examples

  • Dean saw no reason to trouble Mrs. Byrne with this nebulous sighting.

  • What Daniel could recall was too nebulous to call a true memory.

  • When considering how many calories needed each day to lose weight, you hear the term calorie bandied about, but most people have a really nebulous idea of what a calorie actually is.

  • Such ideas are consonant with, and may be traced to the confused and nebulous condition of, savage thought.

  • The concept of ' fairness ' is thus somewhat nebulous.

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