VAGUELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vaguely mean? 

• VAGUELY (adverb)
  The adverb VAGUELY has 1 sense:

1. in a vague way

  Familiarity information: VAGUELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VAGUELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a vague way

Synonyms:

mistily; vaguely

Context example:

he explained it somewhat mistily

Pertainym:

vague (not clearly expressed or understood)

 Context examples 

Buck felt vaguely that there was no depending upon these two men and the woman.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He remembered her vaguely, but he remembered her, and that was more than could be said for her.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I loved my wife dearly, and I was happy; but the happiness I had vaguely anticipated, once, was not the happiness I enjoyed, and there was always something wanting.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It left him, however, vaguely uneasy, and Mrs. Straker, waking at one in the morning, found that he was dressing.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beyond was the long sweep of the woods, and in the center, shimmering vaguely through the gloom, was the great lake, the mother of strange monsters.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Somewhere, stored away in the recesses of his mind and vaguely remembered, was the impression that there were people who washed their teeth every day.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Chronic basophilic leukemia is an inappropriate term vaguely connected to the term mast cell leukemia.

(Acute Basophilic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

I tried to scream and was vaguely aware of some hoarse croak which was my own voice, but distant and detached from myself.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Still holding my hand in one of his, he opened a door, and I was vaguely conscious that we had entered a large room in which a cigar had been smoked not long before.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A Polish count, aged eighteen, devoted himself to the ladies, who pronounced him, 'a fascinating dear', and a German Serene Something, having come to supper alone, roamed vaguely about, seeking what he might devour.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)