A vague sentence means it is a sentence that the audience can interpret and assume something totally different from what the speaker means. The speaker is the one who actually knows the real meaning of the sentence. The sentence is usually a general sentence without much detail.
Someone would ask me this, “how are you doing today?” and I would reply, “I am doing ok”. This little conversation would always come up when you haven’t seen someone in a while or even a couple days.
“I am doing okay” is a very vague sentence. The audience can interpret “okay” as the person is doing all right and there is nothing-special going on with them that day. There can also be an interpretation that that the person is doing better so their day is consider okay, but not great because nothing special happened. While all this assumption is going through the audience’s mind, the speaker could really mean okay as in they are not having a good day and they are just getting by so they are okay.
Often time’s people would even reply to me “just okay? What do you mean okay?” It is because they do not know the meaning of “okay” and they want to make sure that they have the right definition of “okay”
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