0 (especially of ideas) not clear and having no form: --
1 (esp. of ideas) unclear and lacking form; vague: --
a nebulous concept
The authors admit that their subject matter is nebulous and its meanings ambiguous.
Whichever is the case, the argument continues, welfare analysis relates to somebody like you and me, not to a nebulous collective entity.
Abstract terms are rather more nebulous, as they cannot be directly 'cashed in ' for any particular, determinate ideas.
In both cases the effects of these elections on policy are nebulous in the extreme and largely invisible to voters.
This is further indication of the primacy it enjoys over the notion of species-typical function and of its superior specificity to that nebulous idea.
Chapter 4 is particularly important, dealing with the somewhat nebulous, but crucial, area of inter-personal energy and its role in the teacher+pupil relationship.
The nebulous nature of expectation and practice implicit in such a changing taxonomy implies that any attempt at analysis should be similarly multi-faceted.
Qualitative research methods are often more appropriate to the frequently nebulous areas that primary care research must address.
