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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Cloudy, misty, or hazy.
  2. adj. Lacking definite form or limits; vague: nebulous assurances of future cooperation.
  3. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a nebula.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Cloudy; hazy: used literally or figuratively.
  2. In astronomy, pertaining to a nebula; having the appearance of a nebula; nebular.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. In the form of cloud or haze; hazy.
  2. adj. Vague or ill-defined.
  3. adj. Relating to a nebula or nebulae.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Cloudy; hazy; misty.
  2. adj. (Astron.) Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. lacking definite form or limits
  2. adj. lacking definition or definite content
  3. adj. of or relating to or resembling a nebula

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Latin nebulōsus ("full of mist, foggy, cloudy"), from nebula ("mist, vapour, cloud"), from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud, vapor, fog, moist, sky”). Cognate with Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, "cloud"), Old High German nebul ("cloud, fog") (German Nebel), Old English nifol, neowol ("dark, gloomy, obscure, precipitous, prone"). More at neveling, nuel. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Latin nebulōsus, from nebula, cloud; see nebh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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