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Ambiguous

adjective

Open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead. Synonym: equivocal. "The polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates" , "The officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness" , "Popularity is an equivocal crown" , "An equivocal response to an embarrassing question"

Having more than one possible meaning. "Frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"

Having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns. "Ambiguous inkblots"

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"Ambiguous" Quotes from Famous Books

... you speak unconsciously—as genius speaks;—you cannot weigh the meaning of your words, or the effect of what you say on the worldly or callous minds which have learned to balance motives and meanings before coining them into more or less ambiguous language. No!—I have nothing to reproach you with, Manuel,—I am thankful to have you by ...

— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli

... in this picture a row of torch-bearing angels makes the result, if possible, even less Christian, for these delightful creatures, with their ambiguous smiles and supple grace, have all the dangerous attraction of wicked angels. They are Ganymedes, borrowed from mythology, not ...

— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... is considered that the vast majority of the Greeks in the United States, has never had any opportunity to attend a Christian meeting, or hear the Gospel preached in their own language, it is to their credit that, with all the temptations and the ambiguous associations which the laboring class is often in contact with they have not been worse than they are; it is an indication that the primitive and strong character of the Greek seldom yields to temptation; they hold fast to their historical ...

— Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker • Meletios Golden

... offered, and, on the other hand the Law, as far as the heavens are from the earth. In shaky matters many explanations are needed, but in a good matter one or two thoroughgoing explanations dissolve all objections which men think they can raise.] Ambiguous and dangerous cases produce many and various solutions. For the judgment of the ancient poet ...

— The Apology of the Augsburg Confession • Philip Melanchthon

... all technical contrivances is an additional testimony in the same direction, and so is their singular clearness of expression. Their phrase, "figurez-vous," or "picture to yourself," seems to express their dominant mode of perception. Our equivalent of "imagine" is ambiguous. ...

— Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development • Francis Galton

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