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Nebulous

Nebulous Meaning & Definition
Nebulous Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Nebulous?

[adj] lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons"; "unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be"- Jane Austen
[adj] lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore; "nebulous distinction between pride and conceit"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Nebulous: cloudy | indefinite | indistinct | nebulose | unfixed

Related Terms | Find terms related to Nebulous: abstract | amorphous | anagalactic | asteroidal | astral | astrologic | astrologistic | astrologous | astronomic | astrophysical | bland | blind | blurred | broad | castellatus | celestial | circumplanetary | cirrose | cirrous | cislunar | clear as mud | clouded | cloud-flecked | cloudy | collective | cumuliform | cumulous | Cynthian | dark | dim | dirty | empyreal | empyrean | equinoctial | extragalactic | faint | featureless | foggy | fuzzy | galactic | general | generalized | generic | gloomy | hazy | heavenly | heavy | heliacal | ill-defined | indefinite | indeterminate | indistinct | intercosmic | interplanetary | intersidereal | interstellar | lenticularis | lunar | lunary | lunate | lunular | lunulate | mammatus | meteoric | meteoritic | misty | muddy | murky | nebular | nebulose | neutral | nimbose | nonspecific | nubilous | obscure | opaque | overcast | overclouded | pale | planetal | planetarian | planetary | planetesimal | semilunar | shadowy | shapeless | sidereal | solar | sphery | squally | starry | star-spangled | star-studded | stellar | stellary | stormy | stratiform | stratous | terrestrial | thunderheaded | transcendent | turbid | uncharacterized | unclear | undifferentiated | unplain | unspecified | uranic | vague | wide | zodiacal

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Nebulous In Webster's Dictionary

\Neb"u*lous\, a. [L. nebulosus: cf. F. n['e]buleux. See {Nebula}.] 1. Cloudy; hazy; misty. 2. (Astron.) Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike. -- {Neb"u*lous*ly}, adv. -- {Neb"u*lous*ness}, n.

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