be ambiguous

Frequency: 8.018.5 per million words

Used to describe something that is unclear or has more than one possible meaning.

ambiguousVERB + ambiguous

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Examples (10)

  • The wording of the new law is ambiguous and open to interpretation.
  • His reply to my question was rather ambiguous.
  • The results from the experiment have been ambiguous, which is frustrating for the researchers.
  • Your instructions will be ambiguous if you don't add more specific examples.
  • It seems the author intended for the poem's conclusion to be ambiguous.
  • He was being deliberately ambiguous when asked about his future plans.
  • The hero of the story is morally ambiguous, neither purely good nor evil.
  • The legal definition of 'reasonable cause' can often be ambiguous.
  • The message she left on my voicemail was so ambiguous that I didn't know what to do.
  • For a contract to be valid, its terms must not be ambiguous.