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单词 vaguely
释义

vaguely

/ˈveɪɡli /
adverb
1In a way that is uncertain, indefinite or unclear; roughly: he vaguely remembered talking to her once...
  • Members in the clubs of the early 1830s had talked vaguely of votes for all.
  • Contractors are working round the ring mains, which vaguely follows the Bradford Ring Road, in an anti-clockwise direction.
  • A few grooves in a tree trunk, looking vaguely like a face, elevated into being the sacred image of our saviour.

Synonyms

roughly, more or less, approximately, nearly, just about, practically, virtually, as near as dammit, for all practical purposes, to all intents and purposes;
South African plus-minus
informal pretty much
1.1In a way that is unfocused or lacks attention; absent-mindedly: he nodded vaguely...
  • "They're better than ever today," he summed up vaguely, and presumably are better still now - whoever they are.
  • She vaguely mentioned something about pursuing another line of work and thanked them for all their kindnesses.
  • Janelle takes no notice of Harold except to vaguely tell him to "look under things," for their clothes, and then goes back to eating her dinner.

Synonyms

absent-mindedly, abstractedly, inattentively, with one's head in the clouds, vacantly, vacuously, giddily, forgetfully
informal scattily, dizzily, dippily
2 [as submodifier] Slightly: he looked vaguely familiar...
  • Angola, which is about twice the size of Texas, may be a nation with a vaguely familiar ring to many Americans.
  • At first the officers in charge of the troops garrisoned in the city were vaguely apprehensive of trouble in the ranks.
  • In its original German version, the words sound great: spiky, crunchy, memorable, even vaguely credible.

Synonyms

slightly, a little, a bit, somewhat, rather, moderately, to some degree, to a certain extent, in a way, to a slight extent, faintly, obscurely, dimly;
marginally, a shade
informal sort of, kind of, kinda, ish
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