nebulous

3 definitions found

nebulous - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Nebulous \Neb"u*lous\, a. [L. nebulosus: cf. F. n['e]buleux. See
     Nebula.]
     1. Cloudy; hazy; misty.
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     2. (Astron.) Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of,
        a nebula; nebular; cloudlike.
        [1913 Webster] -- Neb"u*lous*ly, adv. --
        Neb"u*lous*ness, n.
        [1913 Webster]

nebulous - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  nebulous
      adj 1: lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy
             issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore; "nebulous
             distinction between pride and conceit" [syn: cloudy,
             nebulose, nebulous]
      2: of or relating to or resembling a nebula; "the nebular
         hypothesis of the origin of the solar system" [syn:
         nebular, nebulous]
      3: lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons";
         "unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to
         be"- Jane Austen [syn: nebulous, unfixed]

nebulous - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  111 Moby Thesaurus words for "nebulous":
     Cynthian, abstract, amorphous, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral,
     astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical,
     bland, blind, blurred, broad, castellatus, celestial,
     circumplanetary, cirrose, cirrous, cislunar, clear as mud,
     cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, collective, cumuliform, cumulous,
     dark, dim, dirty, empyreal, empyrean, equinoctial, extragalactic,
     faint, featureless, foggy, fuzzy, galactic, general, generalized,
     generic, gloomy, hazy, heavenly, heavy, heliacal, ill-defined,
     indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, intercosmic, interplanetary,
     intersidereal, interstellar, lenticularis, lunar, lunary, lunate,
     lunular, lunulate, mammatus, meteoric, meteoritic, misty, muddy,
     murky, nebular, nebulose, neutral, nimbose, nonspecific, nubilous,
     obscure, opaque, overcast, overclouded, pale, planetal,
     planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, semilunar, shadowy,
     shapeless, sidereal, solar, sphery, squally, star-spangled,
     star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, stormy, stratiform,
     stratous, terrestrial, thunderheaded, transcendent, turbid,
     uncharacterized, unclear, undifferentiated, unplain, unspecified,
     uranic, vague, wide, zodiacal