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{
"term": "vague",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "not clear in a person’s mind",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to have a **vague impression/memory/recollection** of something"
},
{
"text": "They had only a **vague idea** where the place was."
},
{
"text": "I am vague about what happened during the rest of the night."
},
{
"text": "I have a vague recollection of meeting him when I was a child."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "sound"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["about", "as to", "in"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "not having or giving enough information or details about something",
"sensetop": "vague (about something)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She's a little vague about her plans for next year."
},
{
"text": "The politicians made vague promises about tax cuts."
},
{
"text": "He was accused of being deliberately vague."
},
{
"text": "We had only a vague description of the attacker."
},
{
"text": "He outlined the policy in vague terms."
},
{
"text": "Her directions were hopelessly vague."
},
{
"text": "It was a vague enough concept for the liberals to unite around."
},
{
"text": "It was a vague enough suggestion for everyone to be happy with it."
},
{
"text": "Since the officers knew little themselves their reassurances were necessarily vague."
},
{
"text": "The identity of the city in the novel is deliberately left vague."
},
{
"text": "The law is notoriously vague on this point."
},
{
"text": "The statement was vague in its wording."
},
{
"text": "You're being deliberately vague."
},
{
"text": "an inherently vague and subjective concept"
},
{
"text": "I was suitably vague as to exactly how I had acquired the money."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "sound"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["about", "as to", "in"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "suggesting a lack of clear thought or attention",
"examples": [
{
"text": "His vague manner concealed a brilliant mind."
},
{
"text": "She seems to be getting rather vague as she grows older."
}
],
"synonyms": "absent-minded",
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "sound"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["about", "as to", "in"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "not having a clear shape",
"examples": [
{
"text": "In the darkness they could see the vague outline of a church."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/veɪɡ/",
"audio": "va/vague/vague__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/veɪɡ/",
"audio": "va/vague/vague__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from French, or from Latin vagus ‘wandering, uncertain’."
}