Nebulous
nebulous (adjective) - vague, not clear, not easy to describe or define
a nebulous idea
a nebulous concept
grapple with nebulous concepts
a nebulous policy
a nebulous category
a nebulous point in an argument
a nebulous notion
nebulous aspects of X
the more nebulous aspects of X
nebulous powers
nebulous authority
a nebulous slogan
a nebulous symptoms of a disease
ludicrously nebulous
turned out to be as nebulous as Y
rather nebulous
somewhat nebulous
a very real, if often nebulous
a nebulous requirement
this takes us into the nebulous area of X
treacherously nebulous questions of Y
ways to measure more nebulous concepts like X
has always been a wee bit nebulous
Example sentences:
* This management system enables us to break up the larger and more nebulous goals, into smaller, more manageable pieces.
* "We'll have to take immediate action on the problem and deal with the more nebulous aspects of the problem later."
* It's all so nebulous.
* It was ludicrously nebulous.
* "Market forces" is a phrase regarded by some as a nebulous slogan.
* Recently company policy has got more nebulous, retreating into the traditional notions of 'standards' and 'testing'."
* "Statistics grapples with the quantification of such nebulous concepts as probability, certainty and error."
* The manager thought the ideas discussed in the meeting were all very nebulous.
* What has happened in the past has always been a wee bit nebulous.
* I'm afraid that all my ideas sounded naive and idealistic to Freddy, and rather nebulous.
* The legislation gives the government gives the agency rather nebulous powers that are really quite scary.
* Each time she thought she had caught hold of the essential man he turned out to be as nebulous as the sea mist drifting through her fingers.
* She claimed a nebulous acquaintanceship with her late husband.
* The conference will discuss ways to measure more nebulous concepts like quality of life.
* The importance of the author for gay culture is not simply one of the themes in his writing; there are also broader, crucial but treacherously nebulous questions of tone, attitude and feeling.
* The disease is characterized by symptoms that are indefinite, mild and nebulous.
* "Normality" is a nebulous concept unless we ask whose normality is to be valued and emulated?
* How would you define such a nebulous thing as "justice" ?
* "First, it must be asserted that the subject-matter of the novel is crime, and not the more nebulous category of deviance."
* "Social isolation is a very nebulous concept to attempt to quantify.
* "Social support remains, however, a rather nebulous concept to define and measure in social surveys."
* "I felt like the body of a ghost, nebulous and deserted."
* "She had always seen herself as fitting into a nebulous category of people without any attachments, family or otherwise in the town."
* Ignoring employees' own capacity to recognise, assess and minimise risk may well mean the risks themselves; the obvious physical ones (fire, explosion) and the more mundane and nebulous but often more far-reaching and insidious threats to business survival (financial or market-oriented); are overlooked too.
* She said she'd have a sherry, a nebulous drink itself, so I poured her as dark and sweet a one as I could find in the little tight tiny rows of sinister bottles, and while she drank it I put on trousers and sweater.
* This is a nebulous requirement which also applies to some of the other provisions in the Act.
* There existed a very real, if often nebulous, American distrust of the British Empire.
* The proposed law announced by the Prime Minister was rather nebulous but potentially far-reaching.
* There were statements of intent, exhortations, graphs and charts all aimed at producing improvements in what was to me at that time the nebulous concept of "Quality".
* And finally , and this is something of a nebulous point, taking into account the most efficient use of resources.
* This takes us into the nebulous area of psychological assessment, but it is also the case that the supply of information must be of the right type and in the right form to enable human air traffic controllers and the flight crew to respond and act correctly.
