What are the opposite words for vague?
The term "vague" refers to a lack of clarity or precision. Therefore, its antonyms can describe clarity, definiteness, or preciseness. Some of the antonyms for vague include clear-cut, specific, precise, distinct, explicit, definite, unequivocal, well-defined, certain, and vivid. These terms imply that something is clearly defined or articulated, and there is no ambiguity or uncertainty. They also suggest that a statement, idea, or concept is well-formed and easy to understand. Therefore, when writing or communicating, it is best to avoid vague language and strive for precise and clear communication.
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- clear
- pure
- absolute
- categorical
- certain
- positive
- accepted
- open
- precise
- real
- direct
- ostensible
- visible
- manifest
- authoritative
- simple
- free
- strong
- clean
- transparent
- apparent
- assured
- beyond doubt
- bold
- clear-cut
- cut-and-dried
- definite
- demonstrable
- demonstrative
- discernible
- distinct
- easy
- exact
- explicit
- firm
- gross
- honest
- logical
- notable
- noticeable
- peculiar
- plain
- pronounced
- public
- straightforward
- unambiguous
- unassailable
- undeniable
- undisputed
- unequivocal
- well-defined
- accurate
- audible
- crisp
- decided
- definitive
- descriptive
- detailed
- dogmatic
- emphatic
- evident
- explanatory
- exposed
- express
- frank
- glaring
- graphic
- indisputable
- known
- legible
- limpid
- lucid
- luminous
- obvious
- perceptible
- perspicuous
- see-through
- specific
- unconditional
- unquestionable
- broad
- easily noticed; considerable
- appreciable
- absolutely certain
- able to be heard
- without covering or content
- bare
- bright, striking
- full, obvious
- explicit, unconditional
- undoubtable, valid
- precise, sharp
- cloudless, bright
- accurate, precise
- obvious, easily seen
- short, curt in presentation
- decided and fixed
- certain, definite
- exact, clear
- provable, evident
- expressive, communicative
- itemized, particularized
- recognizable; distinct
- apparent, obvious
- dictatorial, opinionated
- not difficult
- insistent, unequivocal
- made public
- certain, precise
- unalterable, definite
- unmistakable
- completely honest
- unrestrained personally
- obvious, unconcealed
- clear, explicit
- famous, popular
- easy to read
- clear, comprehensible
- probable, reasonable
- bright, glowing
- clear, obvious
- important; famous
- conspicuous, evident
- apparent, understandable
- unfastened, unclosed
- alleged, supposed
- unconcealed, conspicuous
- characteristic, distinguishing
- noticeable, obvious
- exact, accurate
- distinct, evident
- known, acknowledged
- unmixed, genuine
- genuine in existence
- extraordinary, outstanding
- clear, understandable; easy
- particular, distinguishing
- simple, easy
- healthy, powerful
- absolute, total
- definite, proven
- definite, positive
- definite; beyond doubt
- not definite or clear
- apparent, seeable
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
-
clear
- clear,
- apprehensible,
- graspable,
- readable,
- recognizable,
- sunshiny,
- unambiguous,
- undimmed,
- unhampered,
- well-defined,
- Tralucent,
- Translucid,
- Transpicuous,
- see through,
- Uncensurable,
- dis charged,
- dis missed,
- dis-charged,
- dis-missed,
- in nocent,
- in-nocent,
- more absolved,
- more apprehensible,
- more exculpated,
- more exonerated,
- more graspable,
- more precise,
- more resolved,
- more tralucent,
- more translucid,
- more transpicuous,
- more unblurred,
- more uncensurable,
- more undarkened,
- more undimmed,
- more unhampered,
- most absolved,
- most apprehensible,
- most exculpated,
- most exonerated,
- most graspable,
- most resolved,
- most sunshiny,
- most transpicuous,
- most unblurred,
- most uncensurable,
- most undarkened,
- most undimmed,
- most unhampered,
- re-solved,
- seethrough,
- trans lucent,
- trans lucid,
- trans-lucent,
- trans-lucid,
- un blurred,
- un clouded,
- un complicated,
- un darkened,
- un defiled,
- un dimmed,
- un hampered,
- un impeded,
- un obstructed,
- un questionable,
- un tarnished,
- un troubled,
- un-blemished,
- un-blurred,
- un-censurable,
- un-complicated,
- un-darkened,
- un-defiled,
- un-dimmed,
- un-hampered,
- un-impeded,
- un-limited,
- un-obstructed,
- un-tarnished,
- un-troubled,
- unblurred.
- pure
- absolute
- categorical
-
certain
- absolute,
- confirmable,
- unassailable,
- establishable,
- having down pat,
- in controvertible,
- in-controvertible,
- more ascertained,
- more confirmable,
- more predestined,
- most ascertained,
- most confirmable,
- most establishable,
- most predestined,
- pre destined,
- pre-destined,
- re liabler,
- re liablest,
- re-liable,
- re-liabler,
- re-liablest.
- positive
- accepted
-
open
- dehiscent,
- getable,
- in question,
- unbolted,
- unburdened,
- unstopped,
- upfront,
- Patulous,
- Ringent,
- Securable,
- Unshut,
- nondiscriminatory,
- Undissembled,
- on deck,
- up for discussion,
- be had,
- dis interested,
- dis-interested,
- ex tended,
- ex tensive,
- ex-tended,
- in decisive,
- in-decisive,
- made passable,
- more agape,
- more dehiscent,
- more emptied,
- more expanded,
- more getable,
- more patulous,
- more rent,
- more ringent,
- more securable,
- more unbarred,
- more unbolted,
- more unburdened,
- more unfurled,
- more unplugged,
- more unshut,
- more up front,
- more up-front,
- more upfront,
- most agape,
- most dehiscent,
- most emptied,
- most expanded,
- most getable,
- most nondiscriminatory,
- most patulous,
- most rent,
- most ringent,
- most unbolted,
- most unburdened,
- most undissembled,
- most unfurled,
- most unplugged,
- most unshut,
- most unstopped,
- most up front,
- most up-front,
- most upfront,
- most yawning,
- non discriminatory,
- not posted,
- on level,
- opendoor,
- re moved,
- spread out,
- un barred,
- un biased,
- un bolted,
- un burdened,
- un dissembled,
- un furled,
- un locked,
- un occupied,
- un prejudiced,
- un resolved,
- un settled,
- un shut,
- un stopped,
- un-barred,
- un-blocked,
- un-burdened,
- un-dissembled,
- un-furled,
- un-locked,
- un-occupied,
- un-plugged,
- un-prejudiced,
- un-settled,
- un-shut,
- un-stopped,
- up air,
- up in air,
- up the air,
- up-front,
- yet be decided,
- yet to be decided.
- precise
- real
- direct
- ostensible
- visible
- manifest
- authoritative
- simple
-
free
- at liberty,
- freewheeling,
- off the hook,
- on one's own,
- unengaged,
- untrammeled,
- all owed,
- all-owed,
- at large,
- dis engaged,
- dis-engaged,
- fancy free,
- fancyfree,
- free spirited,
- free wheeling,
- free-spirited,
- freespirited,
- in dependent,
- in formal,
- in-dependent,
- in-formal,
- more allowed,
- more free wheeling,
- more free-spirited,
- more free-wheeling,
- more freespirited,
- more freewheeling,
- more liberated,
- more unengaged,
- more untrammeled,
- most allowed,
- most free spirited,
- most free wheeling,
- most free-spirited,
- most free-wheeling,
- most freespirited,
- most freewheeling,
- most liberated,
- most unengaged,
- most untrammeled,
- on loose,
- on one own,
- on ones own,
- on own,
- un committed,
- un confined,
- un engaged,
- un fettered,
- un regulated,
- un-committed,
- un-confined,
- un-fettered,
- un-regulated,
- un-trammeled.
-
strong
- heavy-duty,
- take charge,
- unmixed,
- well-built,
- strong-flavored,
- hard as nails,
- highly flavored,
- able bodied,
- ablebodied,
- full bodied,
- fullbodied,
- hard nosed,
- hardnosed,
- in fine feather,
- in tense,
- in tenser,
- in-tense,
- in-tenser,
- in-tensest,
- iron willed,
- more heavy duty,
- more heavy-duty,
- more heavyduty,
- more inebriating,
- more iron willed,
- more strong flavored,
- more strong-flavored,
- more strongflavored,
- more unmixed,
- more well built,
- more well established,
- more well-built,
- more wellbuilt,
- more wellestablished,
- most heavy-duty,
- most heavyduty,
- most inebriating,
- most iron-willed,
- most ironwilled,
- most strong flavored,
- most strong-flavored,
- most strongflavored,
- most unmixed,
- most well built,
- most well established,
- most well-built,
- most well-established,
- most wellbuilt,
- most wellestablished,
- over powering,
- over-powering,
- re doubtable,
- re sourceful,
- re-doubtable,
- selfassertive,
- strong flavored,
- strongflavored,
- un compromising,
- un mixed,
- un-compromising,
- un-mixed,
- well built,
- well established,
- well made,
- wellbuilt,
- wellestablished,
- wellfounded,
- wellmade.
- clean
- transparent
- apparent
- assured
- beyond doubt
- bold
- clear-cut
- cut-and-dried
-
definite
- clear-cut,
- limited,
- well-marked,
- Undubitable,
- silhouetted,
- clean cut,
- cleancut,
- clearly defined,
- de finite,
- de terminate,
- de-finite,
- de-terminate,
- more assigned,
- more circumscribed,
- more silhouetted,
- more undubitable,
- more well marked,
- more well-marked,
- more wellmarked,
- most assigned,
- most circumscribed,
- most silhouetted,
- most undubitable,
- most well marked,
- most well-marked,
- most wellmarked,
- not vague,
- pre scribed,
- pre-scribed,
- un dubitable,
- un-dubitable,
- well grounded,
- well marked,
- wellgrounded,
- wellmarked.
- demonstrable
- demonstrative
- discernible
- distinct
-
easy
- painless,
- snapper,
- undemanding,
- wieldy,
- cincher,
- easily done,
- no sweat,
- no problem,
- untroublesome,
- child play,
- childs play,
- cinchest,
- in considerable,
- in-considerable,
- more painless,
- more picnic,
- more pushover,
- more undemanding,
- more untroublesome,
- most painless,
- most pushover,
- most undemanding,
- most untroublesome,
- no bother,
- no trouble,
- not burdensome,
- nothing it,
- piece cake,
- snappest,
- un demanding,
- un involved,
- un troublesome,
- un-demanding,
- un-involved,
- un-troublesome,
- wieldier,
- wieldiest.
- exact
- explicit
-
firm
- undeviating,
- never-failing,
- dead set on,
- in flexible,
- in tent,
- in-flexible,
- more never-failing,
- more neverfailing,
- more stipulated,
- more undeviating,
- most never failing,
- most never-failing,
- most neverfailing,
- never failing,
- neverfailing,
- pre vailing,
- re solute,
- re-solute,
- un bending,
- un changeable,
- un flinching,
- un shaken,
- un wavering,
- un yielding,
- un-bending,
- un-changeable,
- un-deviating,
- un-flinching,
- un-shakable,
- un-shaken,
- un-wavering,
- un-yielding.
-
gross
- egregious,
- gross,
- swinish,
- undiscriminating,
- whole shebang,
- before deductions,
- before tax,
- in decent,
- in delicate,
- in elegant,
- in gutter,
- in sensitive,
- in the gutter,
- in-decent,
- in-delicate,
- in-elegant,
- in-sensitive,
- more barnyard,
- more swinish,
- more undiscriminating,
- most swinish,
- most undiscriminating,
- over weight,
- over-weight,
- un couth,
- un cultured,
- un discriminating,
- un feeling,
- un refined,
- un seemlier,
- un seemliest,
- un seemly,
- un sophisticated,
- un wieldier,
- un wieldy,
- un-couth,
- un-cultured,
- un-discriminating,
- un-refined,
- un-seemlier,
- un-seemliest,
- un-wieldier,
- un-wieldiest,
- whole ball of wax,
- whole ball wax,
- whole enchilada,
- whole nine yards,
- whole schmear.
- honest
- logical
-
notable
- bodacious,
- Celebrious,
- pre-eminent,
- bigleague,
- distingue,
- extra ordinary,
- extra-ordinary,
- high-profile,
- highprofile,
- majorleague,
- more bodacious,
- more celebrious,
- more high profile,
- more high-profile,
- more highprofile,
- more rubric,
- most bodacious,
- most celebrious,
- most distingue,
- most high profile,
- most high-profile,
- most highprofile,
- most nameable,
- most rubric,
- pre eminent,
- red letter,
- redletter,
- something else,
- top drawer,
- topdrawer,
- un common,
- un commoner,
- un commonest,
- un usual,
- un-common,
- un-commoner,
- un-usual.
- noticeable
- peculiar
-
plain
- workaday,
- white-bread,
- de formed,
- de-formed,
- hard eyes,
- hard on eyes,
- hard on the eyes,
- hard the eyes,
- more muted,
- more plain featured,
- more plain-featured,
- more plainfeatured,
- more white bread,
- more white-bread,
- more whitebread,
- most muted,
- most plain featured,
- most plain-featured,
- most white bread,
- most white-bread,
- most workaday,
- not beautiful,
- plain featured,
- plain-featured,
- plainfeatured,
- re strained,
- re-strained,
- stripped down,
- un varnished,
- un-varnished,
- white bread,
- whitebread.
- pronounced
- public
- straightforward
- unambiguous
- unassailable
- undeniable
- undisputed
- unequivocal
- well-defined
-
accurate
- faithful,
- on the button,
- severe,
- unerring,
- veracious,
- matter of fact,
- Unrefuted,
- ultraprecise,
- matter-of-fact,
- de fined,
- de-fined,
- dis criminating,
- dis criminative,
- dis-criminating,
- dis-criminative,
- more careful,
- more concrete,
- more defined,
- more ultraprecise,
- more unrefuted,
- most defined,
- most ultraprecise,
- most unrefuted,
- on button,
- on money,
- on the money,
- re gular,
- re-gular,
- ultra precise,
- ultra-precise,
- un erring,
- un impeachable,
- un refuted,
- un-erring,
- un-impeachable,
- un-refuted.
- audible
- crisp
- decided
- definitive
- descriptive
-
detailed
- at length,
- seriatim,
- Circumstantiated,
- Clocklike,
- point by point,
- all inclusive,
- allinclusive,
- blow by blow,
- co pious,
- co-pious,
- de scribed,
- de tailed,
- de-scribed,
- de-tailed,
- dis closed,
- dis-closed,
- in dividual,
- in-dividual,
- more circumstantiated,
- more described,
- more disclosed,
- more elaborated,
- more enumerated,
- more individualized,
- more seriatim,
- more unfolded,
- most amplified,
- most circumstantiated,
- most described,
- most disclosed,
- most elaborated,
- most enumerated,
- most point by point,
- most point-by-point,
- most seriatim,
- most unfolded,
- un folded,
- un-folded.
-
dogmatic
- fascistic,
- stiff-necked,
- wrongheaded,
- wrong-headed,
- onesided,
- Over-bearing,
- dictative,
- high mighty,
- in tolerant,
- more dictative,
- more fascistic,
- more stiff-necked,
- more stiffnecked,
- more wrong headed,
- more wrongheaded,
- most stiff necked,
- most stiff-necked,
- most stiffnecked,
- most wrong headed,
- most wrong-headed,
- most wrongheaded,
- narrow minded,
- one sided,
- over bearing,
- stiff necked,
- wrong headed.
- emphatic
- evident
-
explanatory
- declarative,
- diagrammatic,
- exegetical,
- Elucidatory,
- expositional,
- dis cursive,
- dis-cursive,
- ex positional,
- ex-positional,
- in formative,
- in forming,
- in-formative,
- in-forming,
- more annotative,
- more declarative,
- more diagrammatic,
- more elucidatory,
- more exegetical,
- more expositional,
- more guiding,
- more informing,
- more justifying,
- most annotative,
- most declarative,
- most diagrammatic,
- most elucidatory,
- most exegetical,
- most expositional,
- most guiding,
- most informing,
- most justifying.
-
exposed
- laid bare,
- on display,
- for show,
- de bunked,
- de-bunked,
- dis covered,
- dis-covered,
- ex posed,
- ex-posed,
- made manifest,
- more bared,
- more debunked,
- more divulged,
- more peeled,
- more unmasked,
- more unveiled,
- most bared,
- most denuded,
- most divulged,
- most peeled,
- most revealed,
- most solved,
- most unhidden,
- most unmasked,
- most unsealed,
- most unveiled,
- on spot,
- on the spot,
- on view,
- un covered,
- un hidden,
- un masked,
- un sealed,
- un sheltered,
- un veiled,
- un-hidden,
- un-masked,
- un-protected,
- un-sheltered,
- un-veiled.
-
express
- uttered,
- witting,
- Designful,
- de liberate,
- de-liberate,
- ex press,
- ex pressed,
- ex-press,
- high speed,
- highspeed,
- in tended,
- in-tended,
- more designful,
- more expressed,
- more high speed,
- more highspeed,
- more velocious,
- more witting,
- most designful,
- most expressed,
- most high speed,
- most high-speed,
- most highspeed,
- most velocious,
- most witting,
- non-stop,
- out and out,
- out right,
- out righter,
- out rightest,
- out-right,
- out-righter,
- pre meditated,
- pre-meditated,
- velocious.
-
frank
- lay on the line,
- heart-to-heart,
- saying what one thinks,
- lay it on the line,
- bare-faced,
- bare faced,
- call a spade a spade,
- call a spade spade,
- call spade a spade,
- call spade spade,
- flatout,
- from the hip,
- lay it on line,
- lay it the line,
- lay line,
- lay on line,
- like is,
- more bare faced,
- more bare-faced,
- more flat out,
- more flat-out,
- more flatout,
- more heart to heart,
- more heart-to-heart,
- most bare faced,
- most bare-faced,
- most flat out,
- most flat-out,
- most flatout,
- most heart to heart,
- most heart-to-heart,
- most plain spoken,
- most plain-spoken,
- plain spoken,
- saying what thinks,
- un inhibited,
- un restricted,
- un-inhibited,
- un-restricted.
- glaring
-
graphic
- expressive,
- figurative,
- representational,
- Iconographic,
- Pictoric,
- illustrational,
- blocked-out,
- blockedout,
- de lineated,
- de-lineated,
- marked out,
- marked-out,
- markedout,
- more blocked out,
- more blocked-out,
- more blockedout,
- more delineated,
- more depicted,
- more etched,
- more iconographic,
- more illustrational,
- more marked out,
- more marked-out,
- more markedout,
- more pictoric,
- more pictured,
- more portrayed,
- more representational,
- more seen,
- more sketched,
- most blocked out,
- most blocked-out,
- most blockedout,
- most delineated,
- most depicted,
- most etched,
- most iconographic,
- most illustrational,
- most marked out,
- most marked-out,
- most markedout,
- most pictoric,
- most pictured,
- most portrayed,
- most representational,
- most seen,
- most sketched,
- out lined,
- out-lined,
- re presentational,
- re-presentational.
-
indisputable
- double checked,
- that fact,
- double-checked,
- doublechecked,
- in disputable,
- in-disputable,
- more double checked,
- more double-checked,
- more doublechecked,
- more unfabled,
- most double checked,
- most double-checked,
- most doublechecked,
- most unfabled,
- no ifs ands buts about it,
- no ifs ands buts it,
- no ifs ands or buts about it,
- no ifs ands or buts it,
- that a fact,
- that's a fact,
- that's fact,
- thats a fact,
- thats fact,
- un fabled,
- un-fabled,
- unfabled.
- known
- legible
- limpid
- lucid
- luminous
- obvious
- perceptible
- perspicuous
- see-through
- specific
- unconditional
- unquestionable
- broad
- easily noticed; considerable
- appreciable
- absolutely certain
- able to be heard
-
without covering or content
- bare.
- bare
-
bright, striking
- bold.
- full, obvious
- explicit, unconditional
- undoubtable, valid
- precise, sharp
- cloudless, bright
- accurate, precise
- obvious, easily seen
- short, curt in presentation
- decided and fixed
- certain, definite
- exact, clear
- provable, evident
- expressive, communicative
- itemized, particularized
- recognizable; distinct
- apparent, obvious
- dictatorial, opinionated
-
not difficult
- easy.
- insistent, unequivocal
- made public
- certain, precise
-
unalterable, definite
- firm.
- unmistakable
- completely honest
-
unrestrained personally
- free.
- obvious, unconcealed
- clear, explicit
- famous, popular
- easy to read
- clear, comprehensible
- probable, reasonable
- bright, glowing
- clear, obvious
- important; famous
- conspicuous, evident
- apparent, understandable
-
unfastened, unclosed
- open.
- alleged, supposed
- unconcealed, conspicuous
- characteristic, distinguishing
- noticeable, obvious
- exact, accurate
- distinct, evident
- known, acknowledged
-
unmixed, genuine
- pure.
-
genuine in existence
- real.
- extraordinary, outstanding
- clear, understandable; easy
- particular, distinguishing
- simple, easy
- healthy, powerful
- absolute, total
- definite, proven
- definite, positive
- definite; beyond doubt
- not definite or clear
- apparent, seeable
-
Other relevant words
- expenditure,
- expense,
- outgo,
- outlay,
- blatant,
- bright,
- candid,
- certain,
- comprehensible,
- defined,
- direct,
- evident,
- fathomable,
- firm,
- forthright,
- foursquare,
- frank,
- honest,
- intelligible,
- open,
- openhearted,
- outspoken,
- patent,
- pellucid,
- plainspoken,
- straight,
- straightforward,
- strong,
- sure,
- unambiguous,
- understandable,
- unequivocal,
- unguarded,
- unmistakable,
- well-defined.
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Other antonyms
- accurate,
- broad,
- clean,
- crisp,
- decided,
- easy,
- figurative,
- free,
- glaring,
- known,
- limited,
- manifest,
- palpable,
- peculiar,
- perspicuous,
- real,
- transparent,
- unassailable.
Antonym of the day
stops in one's tracks
- Antonyms:
- bore, disenchant, disgust.
