ambiguous
英英释意
- 1. open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead;
- "an equivocal statement"
- "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"
- 2. having more than one possible meaning;
- "ambiguous words"
- "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"
- 3. having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns;
- "an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"
- "ambiguous inkblots"