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nebulous
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  • ... all of which fell into the nebulous category of we're-building-up-God's-house,  (source)
    nebulous = vague (lacking definite form; not clearly defined or understood)
  • It had happened that morning at the Ministry, if anything so nebulous could be said to happen.  (source)
    nebulous = lacking in definite form
  • He was now decently clothed in a "sport shirt," open at the neck, sneakers, and duck trousers of a nebulous hue.  (source)
    nebulous = indistinct (not clearly any well-known color)
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  • Water is nebulous, it has no shape, you can pass your hand right through it; yet it can kill you.†  (source)
  • The obscurity was now so great that he could see absolutely nothing but a pale nebulousness at his feet, which represented the white muslin figure he had left upon the dead leaves.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • My friends, I have reviewed the facts in my mind, and have also gone over to myself the evidence of the passengers-with this result: I see, nebulously as yet, a certain explanation that would cover the facts as we know them.†  (source)
  • What was never given utterance eventually becomes too nebulous to recall.†  (source)
  • There actually rose the faint halo, a small dim nebulousness, hardly recognizable save by the eye of faith.†  (source)
  • Mysteriously aching, nebulously sad, she slipped away, half-convinced but only half-convinced that it was horrible and unnatural, this postponement of release of mother-affection, this sacrifice to her opinionation and to his cautious desire for prosperity.†  (source)
  • He has to really concentrate with humans, though, because the latent ability is so nebulous.†  (source)
  • The rebellious sadness that was rather too apparent when she sat indoors without a bonnet was cloaked and softened by her outdoor attire, which always had a sort of nebulousness about it, devoid of harsh edges anywhere; so that her face looked from its environment as from a cloud, with no noticeable lines of demarcation between flesh and clothes.†  (source)
  • Those things seem too nebulous to have a concrete location in a person's body.†  (source)
  • She charged through the air on her nebulous horse, pulling me along at her side like I was a sack of laundry.†  (source)
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