nebulous
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- lacking definite form or limits; - H.T.Moore
- "nebulous distinction between pride and conceit"
- lacking definition or definite content; ; - Jane Austen
- "nebulous reasons"
Adjective
- of or relating to or resembling a nebula
Adj
- In the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.
- Vague or ill-defined.
- Relating to a nebula or nebulae.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English, from Middle French nebuleus, from Latin nebulōsus (“full of mist, foggy, cloudy”), from nebula (“mist, vapour, cloud”), from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud, vapor, fog, moist, sky”).
Cognates
*Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, “cloud”)
*German Nebel
**Old High German nebul (“cloud, fog”)
*Old English nifol, neowol (“dark, gloomy, obscure, precipitous, prone”)
by surface analysis, nebula + -ous. More at neveling, nuel.
Synonyms
cloudish, cloudlike, cloudly, cloudy, foggy, foglike, fumid, hazed, hazy, infumated, mistlike, misty, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, roky, smokelike, smoky, turbid, unfixed, vaporous
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
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