: having a tendency to wag : given to wagging hounds with waggy tails.

Having a tendency to wag.

No, waggy is not in the scrabble dictionary.

WIGGY is a valid scrabble word.

adjective. Moving with quick short movements from side to side or up and down.

Dogs will wag their tail to convey a range of emotions: happiness, nervousness, feeling threatened, anxiety, submission and excitement. It’s thought that when a dog is relaxed, its tail will sit in a resting position. Dogs that are alert or excited will hold their tail higher than the natural position.

(uncountable) Vagueness, the condition of being vague. (countable) A vagueness, a thing which is vague, an example of vagueness.

There were vague promises of “lists of extremists” upon which your name will not be found. The week after this I noticed she was very emotional and became vague . Her words about Gabe were troubling, and he couldn’t determine if she was purposely vague or really didn’t know; her pretty face was puzzled, and he frowned.

not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed: vague promises. indefinite or indistinct in nature or character, as ideas or feelings: a vague premonition of disaster.

When a modifier is placed in its proper position in a sentence, a sense of clarity is established for the reader. Vague descriptions occur when writing lacks specific and concrete words and details. Without specificity, writing can become over-generalized, which can make it both inaccurate and uninteresting.

In both conversational and formal English, avoid vagueness. Never use a pronoun that may refer to two or more ideas; don’t leave your reader or listener wondering what you mean.

Some common synonyms of vague are ambiguous, cryptic, dark, enigmatic, equivocal, and obscure.

1. Vague Words Tables. In the English language, writers commonly overuse certain words.
2. Very. Clearly, Considerably,
3. A Lot. Time: Often, Oftentimes,
4. Big. Above average, Ample,
5. Small. Dinky, Faint, Light, Limited,
6. Good/ Great.
7. Bad. Cheap, Dissatisfactory,
8. Confused Amazed, Astonished, Baffled, Bewildered, Disoriented,

Nouns such as stuff, thing, and way are inherently vague. Their possible references are vast and do not refer to a precise object for discussion. Consider the following sentences: There are lots of things that can be done.

What is the opposite of vague?

vague. Antonyms: apparent, clear, diaphanous, distinct, evident, explicit, intelligible, limpid, lucid, manifest, obvious, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, straightforward, translucent, transparent, unadorned, unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable.

‘Vague’ is used where something lacks precision or detail, while ‘ambiguous’ is something that could have two meanings, or is open to interpretation. “I saw David in my car” is ambiguous, because it is not clear whether ‘I’ or ‘David’ was in the car.

Ambiguous words or statements lead to vagueness and confusion, and shape the basis for instances of unintentional humor. For instance, it is ambiguous to say “I rode a black horse in red pajamas,” because it may lead us to think the horse was wearing red pajamas.

Vagueness is standardly defined as the possession of borderline cases. For example, ‘tall’ is vague because a man who is 1.8 meters in height is neither clearly tall nor clearly non-tall.

First, vagueness is not a property of language itself. That is, we generally choose to use vague terms like “tall” or “red” even though the English language allows us to say “6 foot 5.2 inches” or to define a color in terms of CMYK. Second, vagueness is often determined by who is speaking to whom.