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amphibological
adjective as in equivocal
adjective as in opaque
adjective as in tenebrous
adjective as in vague
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- amorphous
- bewildering
- bleary
- blurred
- cloudy
- dark
- dim
- doubtful
- dreamlike
- enigmatic
- generalized
- ill-defined
- impalpable
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- indistinct
- inexplicable
- loose
- misunderstood
- muddy
- perplexing
- problematic
- puzzling
- questionable
- shadowy
- superficial
- tenebrous
- undetermined
- unexplicit
- unintelligible
- unknown
- unsettled
- unspecified
Example Sentences
Suarez was immediately fined by Liverpool and is widely expected to be suspended by the league, all of which prompted the brilliant headline, in the Guardian, “Eats, Shoots, Leaves?”—a play on the amphibological joke about a panda, a gun, and a bar.
Their anfractuousness, their insipience, and their turpitude, are no longer amphibological.
He was at a loss what to say, and the position is only to be regarded as a turbid ebullition of amphibological inanity.
The party found it alike inconvenient to do the one or the other, and ended by a compromise which might serve to keep them alive till after election, but which was as far from any distinct utterance as if their mouths were already full of that official pudding which they hope for as the reward of their amphibological patriotism.
Consequently it must be recognised that the rather amphibological expression "soulless psychology" implies no negation of the existence of the soul.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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