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vaguely en · ADV

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈveɪɡli/

Etymology

Etymology tree English vague Middle English -ly English -ly English vaguely From vague + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a vague manner.
   • The youth pointed vaguely. "Over there," he replied. 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter X, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 105:
   • 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.

Forms

Translations (14)

es desvaídamente (in a vague manner) · nl vaag (in a vague manner) · eo svage (in a vague manner) · es difuminadamente (in a vague manner) · tr belli belirsiz (in a vague manner) · tr belirsiz bir şekilde (in a vague manner) · es vagamente (in a vague manner) · it vagamente (in a vague manner) · tr müphem (in a vague manner) · sk matne (in a vague manner) · de vage (in a vague manner) · pt vagamente (in a vague manner) · ca vagament (in a vague manner) · fr vaguement (in a vague manner)