ambiguousadjective
uk/æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs/us/æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs/C2 having or expressing more than one possible meaning, sometimes intentionally:
His reply to my question was somewhat ambiguous.
The wording of the agreement is ambiguous.
The government has been ambiguous on this issue.
More examples
- The contract is phrased in a rather ambiguous way.
- His attitude to environmental issues was sometimes quite ambiguous.
- Legal experts claim that the law on this matter is ambiguous, and that the way the company interpreted it was reasonable.
- What do you think the title really means? It's rather ambiguous, isn't it?
- If you don't use the correct grammar the meaning can be a bit ambiguous and lead to confusion.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Difficult to understand
- (as) clear as mud idiom
- abstruse
- ambiguity
- arcane
- be lost on sb idiom
- blurred
- diffuse
- esoteric
- fathomless
- garble
- get it into your thick head idiom
- impalpable
- obscure
- opaque
- over your head idiom
- paradox
- puzzler
- puzzling
- recherché
- veiled
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ambiguously
adverb uk/æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs.li/us/æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs.li/
Some questions were badly or ambiguously worded.