Definition of ambiguous

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Ambiguous (a.) 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..

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Ambiloquy :: Ambiloquy (n.) Doubtful or ambiguous language.
Intimation :: Intimation (n.) A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design..
Perspicuous :: Perspicuous (a.) Clear to the understanding; capable of being clearly understood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements..
Amphibological :: Amphibological (a.) Of doubtful meaning; ambiguous.
Dilogical :: Dilogical (a.) Ambiguous; of double meaning.
Ambiguousness :: Ambiguousness (n.) Ambiguity.
Ambiguously :: Ambiguously (adv.) In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.
Homonymous :: Homonymous (a.) Having the same name or designation, but different meaning or relation; hence, equivocal; ambiguous..
Parisology :: Parisology (n.) The use of equivocal or ambiguous words.
Direct :: Direct (a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
Homonymously :: Homonymously (adv.) Equivocally; ambiguously.
Equivoke :: Equivoke (n.) An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations.
Ambiguity :: Ambiguity (n.) The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression..
Riddle :: Riddle (v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Dilogy :: Dilogy (n.) An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense.
Equivocate :: Equivocate (v. t.) To render equivocal or ambiguous.
Riddle :: Riddle (n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling..
Explicit :: Explicit (a.) Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration..
Vague :: Vague (v. i.) Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition..
Equivocate :: Equivocate (a.) To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity..
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