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• excursive• long-winded• prolix• rambling• spread-out on many subjects• wordy -
2 vago
adj.1 footloose, errant, roving, shiftless.2 nebulous, amorphous, formless, shapeless.3 vague, general, unspecific.4 rambling, excursive.f. & m.1 bum, loafer, deadbeat, good-for-nothing.2 vagus.pres.indicat.1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: vagar.* * *► adjetivo1 (impreciso) vague————————► adjetivo1 (vacío) empty; (desocupado) vacant2 (holgazán) lazy, idle► nombre masculino,nombre femenino1 (holgazán) idler, layabout, slacker2 DERECHO vagrant\hacer el vago to laze around* * *1. (f. - vaga)adj.1) idle, lazy2) vague2. (f. - vaga)noun* * *vago, -a1. ADJ1) (gen) vague; (Arte, Fot) blurred, ill-defined; (=indeterminado) indeterminate2) [persona] (=perezoso) lazy, slack; (=poco fiable) unreliable; (=ocioso) idle, unemployed3) [ojo] lazy; [objeto] idle, unused; [espacio] empty4) (=errante) roving, wandering5) †en vago — [mantenerse] unsteadily; [esforzarse] in vain
dar golpes en vago — to flail about, beat the air
2. SM/ F1) (=holgazán) idler, lazybones *; (=inútil) useless individual, dead loss2) (=vagabundo) tramp, vagrant, bum (EEUU); (=pobre) down-and-out* * *I- ga adjetivo1) (fam) < persona> lazy, idle2) <recuerdo/idea> vague, hazy; <contorno/forma> vague, indistinct; < explicación> vagueII- ga masculino, femenino (fam) layabout, slacker (colloq)* * *I- ga adjetivo1) (fam) < persona> lazy, idle2) <recuerdo/idea> vague, hazy; <contorno/forma> vague, indistinct; < explicación> vagueII- ga masculino, femenino (fam) layabout, slacker (colloq)* * *vago11 = slacker, bum, lazybones, layabout, idler.Ex: The article is entitled 'No slackers here: SLA's youngest members have the vision and enthusiasm to shape the profession'.
Ex: Although the results provide support for the 'drunken bum' theory of wife beating, they also demythologize the stereotype because alcohol is shown to be far from a necessary or sufficient cause of wife abuse.Ex: Many see his art as a vocation for lazybones and social misfits.Ex: There is no evidence that inherited wealth is in itself responsible for turning young people into useless layabouts.Ex: This magazine prints essays and stories that celebrate the joyful life of an idler.* persona vaga y mal vestida = slob.vago22 = dim [dimmer -comp., dimmest -sup.], fuzzy [fuzzier - comp., fuzziest -sup.], vague [vaguer -comp., vaguest -sup.], feeble, loose [looser -comp., loosest -sup.], wooly [woolier -comp., wooliest -sup.], indistinct, indistinctive, nebulous.Ex: The genesis of this brave new world of solid state logic, in which bibliographic data are reduced to phantasmagoria on the faces of cathode-ray tubes (CRT), extends at most only three-quarters of a decade into the dim past.
Ex: This is a rather fuzzy basis for establishing subject headings, but fuzziness is not the guidelines only fault.Ex: Some of the terms are vague.Ex: Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.Ex: Kast points out that there is a 'rather loose, conglomeration of interests and approaches' in this developing field.Ex: On the other side, some aspects of the planning study remains wooly.Ex: The typescript will be fuzzy and indistinct without the smooth, firm surface which the backing sheet offers.Ex: This research suggests that people are threatened by categorizations that portray them as too distinctive or too indistinctive.Ex: The concept of such a center remained nebulous at best, and we later learned that communication problems early on had muddied the message about what was really needed.* de manera vaga = hazily.* * *A ( fam); ‹persona› lazy, idleB ‹recuerdo/idea› vague, hazy; ‹contorno/forma› vague, indistincthay un vago parecido entre los dos there is a vague resemblance between themme dio una explicación muy vaga de lo que había sucedido she gave me a very vague explanation of what had happened, she only explained very vaguely what had happenedtengo la vaga sensación de haberlo visto antes I have a vague feeling I've seen him beforemasculine, feminine( fam)layabout, slacker ( colloq)deja ya de hacer el vago y ponte a trabajar stop lazing around and get some work done ( colloq)* * *
Del verbo vagar: ( conjugate vagar)
vago es:
1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo
vagó es:
3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo
Multiple Entries:
vagar
vago
vagar ( conjugate vagar) verbo intransitivo
to wander, roam
vago◊ -ga adjetivo
1 (fam) ‹ persona› lazy, idle
2 ‹recuerdo/idea› vague, hazy;
‹contorno/forma› vague, indistinct;
‹explicación/parecido› vague
■ sustantivo masculino, femenino (fam) layabout, slacker (colloq);◊ deja ya de hacer el vago stop lazing around (colloq)
vagar vi (ir sin rumbo fijo) to wander, roam: vagamos por la ciudad toda la noche, we wandered around the town all night long
vagaba por el desierto, he was wandering about in the desert
vago,-a
I adjetivo
1 pey (holgazán) lazy
2 (difuso) slight, vague: tiene una vaga idea de lo que ocurrió, he has a vague idea of what happened
II m,f (gandul) layabout
' vago' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
boluda
- boludo
- floja
- flojo
- sambenito
- señorito
- vaga
- hecho
- indeterminado
English:
bone-idle
- dim
- do-nothing
- easy-going
- faint
- hazy
- indistinct
- layabout
- obscure
- screw around
- slack
- slob
- swan about
- swan around
- vague
- work shy
- bum
- wooly
* * *vago, -a♦ adj1. [persona] lazy, idle;Fam Humser más vago que la chaqueta de un guardia to be bone-idle2. [imagen, recuerdo] vague♦ nm,flazy person, idler;ser un vago to be lazy o idle♦ nmhacer el vago to laze around* * *I adj1 ( holgazán) lazy;hacer el vago laze around2 ( indefinido) vagueII m, vaga f idler, Brlayabout fam* * *vago, -ga adj1) : vague2) perezoso: lazy, idlevago, -ga n1) : idler, loafer2) vagabundo: vagrant, bum* * *vago1 adj2. (impreciso) vaguevago2 n lazybones -
3 digresivo
• digressive• excursive• parenthetic• parenthetical• tangent• tangentially -
4 divagante
• digressive• excursive• rambling -
5 esparcido en muchos tópicos
• discursive• excursive• spread-out on many subjectsDiccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > esparcido en muchos tópicos
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6 vago
• aimless• amorphous• errant• excursive• footloose• formless• good fit• good-for-nothing person• lay waste• layaway• loafer• nebular• nebulously• pointless• roving• shapeless• trammel net• tramp steamer• unprecise• vagabond• vagrant• vague -
7 excursivo
adj.excursive.
См. также в других словарях:
Excursive — Ex*cur sive, a. Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy. [1913 Webster] The course of excursive . . . understandings. I. Taylor. {Ex*cur sive*ly}, adv. {Ex*cur sive*ness},, n. [1913 Webster] || … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
excursive — index circuitous, devious, indirect, labyrinthine, tangential Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
excursive — [eks kʉr′siv] adj. rambling; desultory; digressive excursively adv. excursiveness n … English World dictionary
excursive — excursively, adv. excursiveness, n. /ik skerr siv/, adj. 1. given to making excursions in speech, thought, etc.; wandering; digressive. 2. of the nature of such excursions; rambling; desultory: excursive conversation. [1665 75; < L excurs(us)… … Universalium
excursive — ex•cur•sive [[t]ɪkˈskɜr sɪv[/t]] adj. 1) given to making excursions in speech, thought, etc.; wandering; digressive 2) of the nature of such excursions; rambling; desultory: excursive conversation[/ex] • Etymology: 1665–75 ex•cur′sive•ly, adv.… … From formal English to slang
excursive — adjective Date: 1659 constituting a digression ; characterized by digression • excursively adverb • excursiveness noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
excursive — adjective Tending to digress … Wiktionary
excursive — Synonyms and related words: O shaped, aberrant, aberrative, aimless, ambagious, backhand, backhanded, by the way, circuitous, circular, deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive … Moby Thesaurus
excursive — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. discursive, digressive, rambling, desultory; see indirect , verbose . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Marked by or given to digression: digressive, discursive, parenthetic, parenthetical, rambling, tangential. See… … English dictionary for students
excursive — ex cur·sive || ÉœËsɪv adj. of an excursion; wandering, rambling, moving from one thing to another, erratic … English contemporary dictionary
excursive — adjective formal tending to digress. Derivatives excursively adverb excursiveness noun Origin C17: from L. excurs , excurrere digress, run out … English new terms dictionary
