Definition of "vaguely" in English

adverb

1. In a vague manner.

   • He looked vaguely around the room, as if lost.

2. Loosely; more or less; somewhat.

   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.