"nebulous" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈnɛbjʊləs/ [Received-Pronunciation, US] Audio: en-us-nebulous.ogg [US] Forms: more nebulous [comparative], most nebulous [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English, from Middle French nebuleus, from Latin nebulōsus (“full of mist, foggy, cloudy”), from nebula (“mist, vapour, cloud”), from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud, vapor, fog, moist, sky”). Cognate with Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, “cloud”), Old High German nebul (“cloud, fog”) (German Nebel), Old English nifol, neowol (“dark, gloomy, obscure, precipitous, prone”), by surface analysis, nebula + -ous. More at neveling, nuel. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*nebʰ-}}, {{inh|en|enm|-}} Middle English, {{der|en|frm|nebuleus}} Middle French nebuleus, {{der|en|la|nebulōsus||full of mist, foggy, cloudy}} Latin nebulōsus (“full of mist, foggy, cloudy”), {{m|la|nebula||mist, vapour, cloud}} nebula (“mist, vapour, cloud”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*nébʰos||cloud, vapor, fog, moist, sky}} Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud, vapor, fog, moist, sky”), {{cog|grc|νέφος||cloud}} Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, “cloud”), {{cog|goh|nebul||cloud, fog}} Old High German nebul (“cloud, fog”), {{cog|de|Nebel}} German Nebel, {{cog|ang|nifol}} Old English nifol, {{m|ang|neowol||dark, gloomy, obscure, precipitous, prone}} neowol (“dark, gloomy, obscure, precipitous, prone”), {{surf|en|nebula|-ous|nocap=1}} by surface analysis, nebula + -ous, {{l|en|neveling}} neveling, {{l|en|nuel}} nuel Head templates: {{en-adj}} nebulous (comparative more nebulous, superlative most nebulous)
  1. In the form of a cloud or haze; hazy. Translations (in the form of a cloud): мъглив (mǎgliv) (Bulgarian), облачен (oblačen) (Bulgarian), nebulós (Catalan), udune (Estonian), hägune (Estonian), sumumainen (Finnish), neblig (German), nebelig (German), nebuloso (Italian), nebuloso [masculine] (Portuguese), nebulos (Romanian), о́блачный (óblačnyj) (Russian), тума́нный (tumánnyj) (Russian), nebuloso (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-nebulous-en-adj-FyJO54H5 Disambiguation of 'in the form of a cloud': 100 0 0
  2. Vague or ill-defined. Translations (ill-defined): неясен (nejasen) (Bulgarian), смътен (smǎten) (Bulgarian), nebulós (Catalan), udune (Estonian), epämääräinen (Finnish), nébuleux (French), nebulös (German), unklar (German), verworren (German), nebelhaft (German), vago (Italian), nebulos (Romanian), неопределённый (neopredeljónnyj) (Russian), неотчётливый (neotčótlivyj) (Russian), нея́сный (nejásnyj) (Russian), сму́тный (smútnyj) (Russian), расплы́вчатый (rasplývčatyj) (Russian), тума́нный (tumánnyj) (Russian), nebuloso (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-nebulous-en-adj-h1EmUtSQ Disambiguation of 'ill-defined': 30 70 0
  3. Relating to a nebula or nebulae. Translations (relating to nebulae): mgławicowy [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-nebulous-en-adj-J0R3SwFl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ous Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 14 67 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ous: 28 18 54 Disambiguation of 'relating to nebulae': 3 3 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: gaseous Related terms: nebula, nebular, nebulosity, inenubilable [formal, literary], insubstantial, obscure, cloud
Synonyms: cloudish, cloudlike, cloudly, cloudy, foggy, foglike, fumid, hazed, hazy, infumated [zoology, biology, natural-sciences], mistlike, misty, nebulose, nebulous, roky [UK, dialectal], smokelike, smoky, turbid, vaporous

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        "4": "",
        "5": "full of mist, foggy, cloudy"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin nebulōsus (“full of mist, foggy, cloudy”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "nebula",
        "3": "",
        "4": "mist, vapour, cloud"
      },
      "expansion": "nebula (“mist, vapour, cloud”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*nébʰos",
        "4": "",
        "5": "cloud, vapor, fog, moist, sky"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud, vapor, fog, moist, sky”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "νέφος",
        "3": "",
        "4": "cloud"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, “cloud”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "nebul",
        "3": "",
        "4": "cloud, fog"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German nebul (“cloud, fog”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Nebel"
      },
      "expansion": "German Nebel",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "nifol"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English nifol",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "neowol",
        "3": "",
        "4": "dark, gloomy, obscure, precipitous, prone"
      },
      "expansion": "neowol (“dark, gloomy, obscure, precipitous, prone”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nebula",
        "3": "-ous",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "by surface analysis, nebula + -ous",
      "name": "surf"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "neveling"
      },
      "expansion": "neveling",
      "name": "l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nuel"
      },
      "expansion": "nuel",
      "name": "l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English, from Middle French nebuleus, from Latin nebulōsus (“full of mist, foggy, cloudy”), from nebula (“mist, vapour, cloud”), from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud, vapor, fog, moist, sky”). Cognate with Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, “cloud”), Old High German nebul (“cloud, fog”) (German Nebel), Old English nifol, neowol (“dark, gloomy, obscure, precipitous, prone”), by surface analysis, nebula + -ous. More at neveling, nuel.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more nebulous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most nebulous",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nebulous (comparative more nebulous, superlative most nebulous)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "gaseous"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "nebula"
    },
    {
      "word": "nebular"
    },
    {
      "word": "nebulosity"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "inenubilable"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "insubstantial"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "obscure"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "cloud"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "In the form of a cloud or haze; hazy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hazy",
          "hazy"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear",
          "text": "The magistrate could not possibly, on the evidence, have held them for a higher court. On the one hand the compositors and pressmen were forced to admit that the light was uncertain, that they were themselves much perturbed, and that it was difficult for them to swear to the identity of the assailants; although they believed that the accused were among them. Cross examined by the clever attorney who had been engaged by McGinty, they were even more nebulous in their evidence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Vague or ill-defined."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Vague",
          "vague"
        ],
        [
          "ill-defined",
          "ill-defined"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Relating to a nebula or nebulae."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nebula",
          "nebula"
        ],
        [
          "nebulae",
          "nebulae"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnɛbjʊləs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-nebulous.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e9/En-us-nebulous.ogg/En-us-nebulous.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/En-us-nebulous.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "cloudish"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "cloudlike"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "cloudly"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "cloudy"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "foggy"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "foglike"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "fumid"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "hazed"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "hazy"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "topics": [
        "zoology",
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "word": "infumated"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "mistlike"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "misty"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "nebulose"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "nebulous"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "roky"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "smokelike"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "smoky"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "turbid"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:nebulous",
      "word": "vaporous"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "mǎgliv",
      "sense": "in the form of a cloud",
      "word": "мъглив"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "oblačen",
      "sense": "in the form of a cloud",
      "word": "облачен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "in the form of a cloud",
      "word": "nebulós"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "in the form of a cloud",
      "word": "udune"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "in the form of a cloud",
      "word": "hägune"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in the form of a cloud",
      "word": "sumumainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in the form of a cloud",
      "word": "neblig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in the form of a cloud",
      "word": "nebelig"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "in the form of a cloud",
      "word": "nebuloso"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in the form of a cloud",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nebuloso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "in the form of a cloud",
      "word": "nebulos"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "óblačnyj",
      "sense": "in the form of a cloud",
      "word": "о́блачный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tumánnyj",
      "sense": "in the form of a cloud",
      "word": "тума́нный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in the form of a cloud",
      "word": "nebuloso"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nejasen",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "неясен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "smǎten",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "смътен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "nebulós"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "udune"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "epämääräinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "nébuleux"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "nebulös"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "unklar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "verworren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "nebelhaft"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "vago"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "nebulos"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neopredeljónnyj",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "неопределённый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neotčótlivyj",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "неотчётливый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nejásnyj",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "нея́сный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "smútnyj",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "сму́тный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rasplývčatyj",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "расплы́вчатый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tumánnyj",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "тума́нный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ill-defined",
      "word": "nebuloso"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "relating to nebulae",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mgławicowy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nebulous"
}
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  "called_from": "translations/324",
  "msg": "possible sense number in translation item: Czech: mlhavý (1,2), mlhovinný (3)",
  "path": [
    "nebulous"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "nebulous",
  "trace": ""
}

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