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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. lacking definite form or limits;
- Example: "gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore
- Example: "nebulous distinction between pride and conceit"
[syn: cloudy, nebulose, nebulous]

2. of or relating to or resembling a nebula;
- Example: "the nebular hypothesis of the origin of the solar system"
[syn: nebular, nebulous]

3. lacking definition or definite content;
- Example: "nebulous reasons"
- Example: "unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be"- Jane Austen
[syn: nebulous, unfixed]


The 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. [1913 Webster] 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]
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