vague
/veɪɡ/
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va - gue -> vague
(adj) မရေရာသော။ မတိကျသော။ ရေးရေးမျှသာ။ ယောင်တယောင်ဝါး။ ဇဝေဇဝါ ဖြစ်သော။ နားဝေတိမ်တောင်။ ယောင်တယောင်ဝါး။ မပီမပြင်။ မပြတ်မသား။ မထင်မရှား။ မှုန်မှုန်မွှားမွှား။ မှုန်ဝါးဝါး။
vague / veÇg / adj (-r , -st )
၁။ (က) မသဲကွဲသော။ ဝိုးတိုးဝါးတား။ ရေးရေးမျှသာ။ a vague promise/ rumour ❍ vague memories/ hopes/ feelings ❍ I haven't the vaguest idea/ notion (ie I don't know at all) what you mean.
(ခ) မရေရာသော။ မတိကျသော။ ရေးရေးမျှသာ။ ယောင်တိယောင်ဝါး။ The terms of the agreement were deliberately vague. ❍ She can only give a vague description of her attacker.
၂။ (က) မရေရာသော။ ဇဝေဇဝါ ဖြစ်သော။ နားဝေတိမ်တောင်။ ယောင်တိယောင်ဝါး။ be vague in/ about one's plans ❍ I'm still vague about what you want. (ခ) မရေမရာ။ မပီမပြင်။ မပြတ်မသား။ give a vague smile/ gesture.
၃။ မထင်မရှား။ မှုန်မှုန်မွှားမွှား။ မှုန်ဝါးဝါး။
the vague outline of a ship in the fog.
❏ vaguely adv
၁။ ဝိုးတိုးဝါးတား။ Her face is vaguely familiar.
၂။ မပြတ်မသား။ ရေးတေးတေး။ He pointed vaguely in my direction. ❍ The
၃။ မရေမရာ။ မပြတ်မသား။ မပီမပြင်။ smile/ gesture vaguely. vagueness n [U]
- Some aspects of the law were somewhat vague and ill-defined.
- Witnesses gave only a vague description of the driver.
- [vague promises] : The politicians made vague promises about independence.
- He was always vague when I asked about deadlines.
- [vague about] : She was rather vague about the details of the incident.
- [a vague idea/notion/impression] : Simon had only a vague idea of where she worked.
- [a vague memory/recollection] : I’ve got a vague memory of the hotel.
- [a vague feeling/suspicion] : She had a vague suspicion that something was wrong.
- In the distance, they could just make out the vague outline of a large animal.
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