nebulous
from
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}]
from
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
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