15 May 2014

nebulous

[neb-yuh-luhs]

adjective

1. hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused: a nebulous recollection of the meeting; a nebulous distinction between pride and conceit.
2. cloudy or cloudlike.
3. of or resembling a nebula or nebulae; nebular.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin nebulōsus full of mist, foggy, cloudy. See nebula, -ous

Related forms
neb·u·lous·ly, adverb
neb·u·lous·ness, noun
non·neb·u·lous, adjective
non·neb·u·lous·ly, adverb
non·neb·u·lous·ness, noun

Anagram

blue onus

Today’s aphorism

If an egg is broken by outside force, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.

– Jim Kwik

On this day

15 May – The Nakba (Day of the Catastrophe), Palestine – commemoration of the displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians and the depopulation and destruction of at least 400 villages during the establishment of Israel in 1948.

15 May 1970 – At Jackson State University in Mississippi, police open fire on students who were protesting against the Vietnam and Cambodian Wars, killing two and injuring twelve.