vaguely
English
Etymology
From vague + -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈveɪɡli/
- Hyphenation: vague‧ly
Adverb
vaguely (comparative more vaguely, superlative most vaguely)
- In a vague manner.
- He looked vaguely around the room, as if lost.
- 1895 October 1, Stephen Crane, chapter 10, in The Red Badge of Courage, 1st US edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 105:
- The youth pointed vaguely. "Over there," he replied.
- 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.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
Translations
in a vague manner
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