Definition of equivocal

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Equivocal (a.) Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected; as, his actions are equivocal..

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Pronounced :: Pronounced (a.) Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided. [A Gallicism.
Forked :: Forked (a.) Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
Parisology :: Parisology (n.) The use of equivocal or ambiguous words.
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..
Homonymously :: Homonymously (adv.) Equivocally; ambiguously.
Precise :: Precise (a.) Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality..
Equivocal :: Equivocal (n.) A word or expression capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term; an equivoque.
Equivocal :: Equivocal (a.) Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected; as, his actions are equivocal..
Unequivocal :: Unequivocal (a.) Not equivocal; not doubtful; not ambiguous; evident; sincere; plain; as, unequivocal evidence; unequivocal words..
Pythonism :: Pythonism (n.) The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.
Apocryphal :: Apocryphal (a.) Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.
Equivocalness :: Equivocalness (n.) The state of being equivocal.
Lax :: Lax (v. t.) Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
Dilogy :: Dilogy (n.) An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense.
Shady :: Shady (superl.) Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, unfit to be seen or known; equivocal; dubious or corrupt..
Uncertain :: Uncertain (a.) Questionable; equivocal; indefinite; problematical.
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..
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..
Univocally :: Univocally (adv.) In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally.
Double :: Double (a.) Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere..
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