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nebulous

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1. nebulous - Adjective

2. nebulous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Cloudy; hazy; misty.

Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike.

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Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately. Jean-Paul Sartre

Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away. Stefan Zweig

The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events. Emma Goldman

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. Martin Amis

We can hardly suppose a possibility of the production of a globular form without a consequent revolution of the nebulous matter, which in the end may settle in a regular rotation about some fixed axis. William Herschel

A proportional condensation of the nebulous matter in the brighter places will sufficiently account for their different degree of shining. William Herschel

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