vague Add to list Share. ... Vague comes from the Latin vagus, which means wandering or rambling. Think of a vagabond, someone who wanders around the world with only a vague idea of where he's going. There are a few big, impressive words for vague, including ambiguous, nebulous, and tenebrous.

Does vague mean plain?

According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and Collins English Dictionary, the word vague is an adjective that means unclear or not explicit.

Is Vaguity a real word?

VAGUITY/VAGUENESS

When a sentence/construction or structure has no meaning, we say that construction is vague. We say that construction is semantically empty – It has no meaning. For e.g., if we say.