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ambiguous
adjective as in having more than one meaning
Strongest matches
cryptic, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, inconclusive, obscure, opaque, puzzling, questionable, uncertain, unclear, vague
Weak matches
clear as dishwater, doubtful, enigmatical, indefinite, indeterminate, inexplicit, muddy, multivocal, polysemous, tenebrous, unintelligible
Example Sentences
“I think because I’m always dealing with ambiguous emotions, I’ve always been afraid of music tipping the balance in one direction or being too histrionic or too sentimental.”
Now it’s up to the lower courts to interpret ambiguous laws.
The language in many of these posts is ambiguous as to whether he means this will impact this election or future ones.
To help vendors, the Fish List permits the use of ambiguous names, meaning the same name can be applied to multiple species.
The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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