{
    "term": "vague",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "not clear in a person’s mind",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to have a **vague impression/memory/recollection** of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They had only a **vague idea** where the place was."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I am vague about what happened during the rest of the night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have a vague recollection of meeting him when I was a child."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "sound"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["about", "as to", "in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "not having or giving enough information or details about something",
            "sensetop": "vague (about something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She's a little vague about her plans for next year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The politicians made vague promises about tax cuts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was accused of being deliberately vague."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had only a vague description of the attacker."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He outlined the policy in vague terms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her directions were hopelessly vague."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was a vague enough concept for the liberals to unite around."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was a vague enough suggestion for everyone to be happy with it."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Since the officers knew little themselves their reassurances were necessarily vague."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The identity of the city in the novel is deliberately left vague."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The law is notoriously vague on this point."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The statement was vague in its wording."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You're being deliberately vague."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an inherently vague and subjective concept"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was suitably vague as to exactly how I had acquired the money."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "sound"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["about", "as to", "in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "suggesting a lack of clear thought or attention",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His vague manner concealed a brilliant mind."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She seems to be getting rather vague as she grows older."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "absent-minded",
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "sound"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["about", "as to", "in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "not having a clear shape",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "In the darkness they could see the vague outline of a church."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/veɪɡ/",
                "audio": "va/vague/vague__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/veɪɡ/",
                "audio": "va/vague/vague__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from French, or from Latin vagus ‘wandering, uncertain’."
}