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vaguely
[veyg-lee]
adverb
in a way that is unclear, imprecise, or uncertain: The sound was vaguely familiar, but she couldn't identify it.
They've been talking vaguely about maybe buying a house there one of these days.
The sound was vaguely familiar, but she couldn't identify it.
Other 51Թ Forms
- unvaguely adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of vaguely1
Example Sentences
It’s the season of dinner dread — when the sun’s still hot at 7 p.m., your patience is wilting and the idea of turning on the oven feels vaguely threatening.
Suddenly, we’re doing a documentary, or we’re doing a balm for what you wish government was like or what you vaguely remember it was like.
From then on, I was game to try anything with a vaguely ranch-adjacent profile—a curiosity that inevitably leads to questions about where, exactly, ranch begins and ends.
Palombo describes his life since being prosecuted as a "Kafka nightmare" where he could barely understand the accusations made against him, with no sense of having done anything even vaguely wrong.
One plausible reading holds that Britain’s two-party system is now in terminal collapse, with a chaotic reconfiguration to follow and a long, grinding war between three vaguely normal parties and the neofascist new right.
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