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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Cynthian, abstract, amorphous, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, bland, blind, blurred, broad, castellatus, celestial, circumplanetary, cirrose, cirrous, cislunar, clear as mud, cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, collective, cumuliform, cumulous, dark, dim, dirty, empyreal, empyrean, equinoctial, extragalactic, faint, featureless, foggy, fuzzy, galactic, general, generalized, generic, gloomy, hazy, heavenly, heavy, heliacal, ill-defined, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, lenticularis, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, mammatus, meteoric, meteoritic, misty, muddy, murky, nebular, nebulose, neutral, nimbose, nonspecific, nubilous, obscure, opaque, overcast, overclouded, pale, planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, semilunar, shadowy, shapeless, sidereal, solar, sphery, squally, star-spangled, star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, stormy, stratiform, stratous, terrestrial, thunderheaded, transcendent, turbid, uncharacterized, unclear, undifferentiated, unplain, unspecified, uranic, vague, wide, zodiacal

Dictionary Results for nebulous:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

nebulous
    adj 1: lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy
           issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore; "nebulous
           distinction between pride and conceit" [syn: cloudy,
           nebulose, nebulous]
    2: of or relating to or resembling a nebula; "the nebular
       hypothesis of the origin of the solar system" [syn:
       nebular, nebulous]
    3: lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons";
       "unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to
       be"- Jane Austen [syn: nebulous, unfixed]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Nebulous \Neb"u*lous\, a. [L. nebulosus: cf. F. n['e]buleux. See
   Nebula.]
   1. Cloudy; hazy; misty.
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   2. (Astron.) Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of,
      a nebula; nebular; cloudlike.
      [1913 Webster] -- Neb"u*lous*ly, adv. --
      Neb"u*lous*ness, n.
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