vaguely

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vaguely

  • /ˈveɪɡli/

adverb more vaguely · most vaguely

  1. In a vague manner. He looked vaguely around the room, as if lost.
  2. Loosely; more or less; somewhat. 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.

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Closest in meaning: mistily, mysteriously, imprecisely, obscurely, loosely, somewhat, remotely, slightly, broadly, wave, indistinctly, nebulously, hazily, dimly, unclearly, amorphously

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adv in a vague manner

Españolvagamente, desvaídamente, difuminadamente
Portuguêsvagamente
Françaisvaguement
Deutschvage
Italianovagamente

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@misc{vaguely_2026,
  title = {vaguely},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/vaguely},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}