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Definition

lacking definite form

Boo's transition from the basement to back home was nebulous in Jem's memory.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

nebulous = cloudy or unclear

... all of which fell into the nebulous category of we're-building-up-God's-house,
James McBride -- The Color of Water

nebulous = vague (lacking definite form; not clearly defined or understood)

It took years before I began to accept the fact that the nebulous "white man's world" wasn't as free as it looked; that class, luck, religion all factored in as well; that many white individuals' problems surpassed my own, often by a lot; that all Jews are not like my grandfather and that part of me is Jewish too.
James McBride -- The Color of Water
Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end, And I fain would have you remember me as a beginning.
Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet
He tried, but he could not express to her the nebulous facts of his rebellion and punishment.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.
Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key
Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity.
Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima
He has to really concentrate with humans, though, because the latent ability is so nebulous.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
I close my eyes and feel him as a source of power, nebulous and shifting.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
He could not remember when he'd first heard those words, but they triggered a deep, nebulous fear.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
Land was nebulous: there was no foundation.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Then there were other more nebulous signs to support Mr Graham's view.
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
Athena now dispelled the nebulous haze before their eyes, and light burst shining on them, front and rear, from ships and from the battle.
Homer -- The Iliad
Garrett watched a mist drift by, whispering and whispering, shaped like a beautiful and nebulous woman.
Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles
The tremendous vault above our heads, the sky, so to speak, appeared to be composed of a conglomeration of nebulous vapors, in constant motion.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
He was now decently clothed in a "sport shirt," open at the neck, sneakers, and duck trousers of a nebulous hue.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
His official duties, however, were nebulous.
Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
The two amateurs had concocted only the most nebulous plan.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Brownsville was fading from his mind, becoming soon a troubled nebulous land, alien and diverging.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
Like his two brothers, both older and almost as nebulous, Titus was a farmer solely because bis father had been a farmer.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy

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