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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
The United States has long been similarly deliberately ambiguous on whether it would deploy its military to defend Taiwan.
She can’t explain what this means, and neither can I, but it matches this peculiar and tantalizingly ambiguous collection.
I thought what might follow would be Mr. Icke’s most provocative—and logical and interesting—departure from Sophocles, an ending of a more ambiguous and less gruesome kind.
The drone incursions follow a string of ambiguous maritime incidents last year involving commercial ships with connections to Russia and China cutting or damaging undersea cables and pipelines in European waterways.
Koeller said the association provided information challenging what she felt was an ambiguous zoning code to the city, arguing that beekeeping was not in violation and exceptions should be made.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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