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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]