Thesaurus:nebulous

Thesaurus

nebulous

English

Adjective

Sense: in the form of a cloud; resembling a cloud

Synonyms

• cloudish
• cloudlike
• cloudly
• cloudy
• foggy
• foglike
• fumid
• hazed
• hazy
• infumated (zoology)
• mistlike
• misty
• nebulose
• nebulous
• roky (UK, dialect)
• smokelike
• smoky
• turbid
• vaporous

Antonyms

• clear
• noncloudy
• unclouded
• uncloudy
• unnebulous

Hypernyms

• gaseous    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• inenubilable (formal, literary)
• insubstantial    [⇒ thesaurus]
• obscure

See also

• Thesaurus:cloud

Further reading

• “353. bubble” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “nebulous” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.