nebulous

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• Received-Pronunciation, US: /ˈnɛbjʊləs/
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• CMU ARPABET: N EH1 B Y AH0 L AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English nebulous, from Middle French nebuleus, from Latin nebulōsus (“full of mist, foggy, cloudy”), from nebula (“mist, vapour, cloud”), from Proto-Indo-European *nébhos (“cloud, vapor, fog, moist, sky”). By surface analysis, nebula + -ous. More at neveling, nuel. Cognates * Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, “cloud”) * German Nebel ** Old High German nebul (“cloud, fog”) * Old English nifol, neowol (“dark, gloomy, obscure, precipitous, prone”)

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: мъглив (mǎgliv) — in the form of a cloud
• Bulgarian: облачен (oblačen) — in the form of a cloud
• Catalan: nebulós — in the form of a cloud
• Estonian: udune — in the form of a cloud
• Estonian: hägune — in the form of a cloud
• Finnish: sumumainen — in the form of a cloud
• Georgian: ნისლოვანი (nislovani) — in the form of a cloud
• German: neblig — in the form of a cloud
• German: nebelig — in the form of a cloud
• Italian: nebuloso — in the form of a cloud
• Portuguese: nebuloso — in the form of a cloud
• Romanian: nebulos — in the form of a cloud
• Russian: о́блачный (óblačnyj) — in the form of a cloud
• Russian: тума́нный (tumánnyj) — in the form of a cloud
• Spanish: nebuloso — in the form of a cloud
• Bulgarian: неясен (nejasen) — ill-defined
• Bulgarian: смътен (smǎten) — ill-defined
• Catalan: nebulós — ill-defined
• Esperanto: nebula — ill-defined
• Estonian: udune — ill-defined
• Finnish: epämääräinen — ill-defined
• French: nébuleux — ill-defined
• Georgian: ბუნდოვანი (bundovani) — ill-defined
• Georgian: გაურკვეველი (gaurḳveveli) — ill-defined
• Georgian: არამკაფიო (aramḳapio) — ill-defined
• Georgian: დაბინდული (dabinduli) — ill-defined
• German: nebulös — ill-defined
• German: unklar — ill-defined
• German: verworren — ill-defined
• German: nebelhaft — ill-defined
• Italian: vago — ill-defined
• Norwegian Bokmål: tåkete — ill-defined
• Norwegian Bokmål: uklar — ill-defined
• Romanian: nebulos — ill-defined
• Russian: неопределённый (neopredeljónnyj) — ill-defined
• Russian: неотчётливый (neotčótlivyj) — ill-defined
• Russian: нея́сный (nejásnyj) — ill-defined
• Russian: сму́тный (smútnyj) — ill-defined
• Russian: расплы́вчатый (rasplývčatyj) — ill-defined
• Russian: тума́нный (tumánnyj) — ill-defined
• Spanish: nebuloso — ill-defined
• Polish: mgławicowy — relating to nebulae
• Spanish: nebular — relating to nebulae