About The Word Ambiguous
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Ambiguous
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What's The Definition Of Ambiguous?
[adj] having more than one possible meaning; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"
[adj] open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question" [adj] (psychology) having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns; "an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"; "ambiguous inkblots" Synonyms | Synonyms for Ambiguous: ambivalent | double | double-barreled | double-barrelled | double-edged | enigmatic | evasive | forked | indeterminate | left-handed | multivalent | multi-valued | oracular | polysemantic | polysemous | uncertain | unstructured Related Terms | Find terms related to Ambiguous: agnostic | amalgamated | ambivalent | amphibious | amphibolic | amphibological | amphibolous | antinomic | beyond understanding | blended | capricious | chancy | changeable | combined | complex | composite | compound | compounded | confusable | conglomerate | cryptic | dappled | dicey | double-faced | doubtful | doubting | dubious | eclectic | enigmatic | enigmatical | equivocal | equivocatory | erratic | fickle | fifty-fifty | fishy | foggy | Greek to one | half-and-half | hesitant | hesitating | heterogeneous | impenetrable | inarticulate | incalculable | incognizable | incoherent | incomprehensible | inconclusive | indecisive | indefinite | indemonstrable | indeterminate | indiscriminate | indistinct | inscrutable | intricate | ironic | irresolute | jumbled | many-sided | medley | mingled | miscellaneous | misleading | misty | mixed | motley | multifaceted | multinational | multiracial | multivocal | mysterious | numinous | obscure | opaque | oracular | oxymoronic | paradoxical | past comprehension | patchy | pluralistic | polysemantic | polysemous | problematic | promiscuous | puzzling | questionable | rambling | scrambled | self-contradictory | skeptical | suspect | syncretic | tenebrous | thrown together | touch-and-go | unaccountable | uncertain | unclear | unconfirmable | unconnected | unconvinced | undefined | undependable | undivinable | unfathomable | unforeseeable | unintelligible | unknowable | unpersuaded | unpredictable | unprovable | unreliable | unsearchable | unsettled | unsure | unverifiable | vague | variable | varied | wavering | whimsical See Also | ambiguous | equivocal | unclear Ambiguous In Webster's Dictionary \Am*big"u*ous\, a. [L. ambiguus, fr. ambigere to
wander about, waver; amb- + agere to drive.]
Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to
signification; capable of being understood in either of two
or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course;
an ambiguous expression.
What have been thy answers? What but dark, Ambiguous,
and with double sense deluding? --Milton.
Syn: Doubtful; dubious; uncertain; unsettled; indistinct;
indeterminate; indefinite. See {Equivocal}.
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