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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-980/
- Published: 2022-10-05T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-03T18:29:56.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

The word for today is…

nebulous (adjective):

1 : of, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular  
2 : indistinct, vague

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nebulous?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology :Nebulous may sound other-worldly—after all, it’s related to nebula, which refers to a distant galaxy or an interstellar cloud of gas or dust—but its mysteriousness is rooted in more earthly unknowns. Both words ultimately come from Latin nebula, meaning “mist, cloud,” and as far back as the 14th century nebulous could mean simply “cloudy” or “foggy.” Nebulous has since the late 17th century been the adjective correlating to nebula (as in “nebulous gas”), but the word is more familiar in its figurative use, where it describes things that are indistinct or vague, as when Jack London wrote of “ideas that were nebulous at best and that in reality were remembered sensations.”

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