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ambiguous 音标拼音: [æmb'ɪgjuəs] a. 暧昧的,不明确的 暧昧的,不明确的 ambiguous岐义 ambiguous adj 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" [ synonym: { equivocal}, { ambiguous}] [ ant: { unambiguous}, { unequivocal}, { univocal}] 2: having more than one possible meaning; " ambiguous words"; " frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy" [ ant: { unambiguous}] 3: having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns; " an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"; " ambiguous inkblots" Ambiguous \ Am* big" u* ous\, a. [ L. ambiguus, fr. ambigere to wander about, waver; amb- agere to drive.] Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression. [ 1913 Webster] What have been thy answers? What but dark, Ambiguous, and with double sense deluding? -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Doubtful; dubious; uncertain; unsettled; indistinct; indeterminate; indefinite. See { Equivocal}. [ 1913 Webster] 123 Moby Thesaurus words for " ambiguous": Greek to one, agnostic, amalgamated, ambivalent, amphibious, amphibolic, amphibological, amphibolous, antinomic, beyond understanding, blended, capricious, chancy, changeable, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, confusable, conglomerate, cryptic, dappled, dicey, double- faced, doubtful, doubting, dubious, eclectic, enigmatic, enigmatical, equivocal, equivocatory, erratic, fickle, fifty- fifty, fishy, foggy, half- and- half, hesitant, hesitating, heterogeneous, impenetrable, inarticulate, incalculable, incognizable, incoherent, incomprehensible, inconclusive, indecisive, indefinite, indemonstrable, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indistinct, inscrutable, intricate, ironic, irresolute, jumbled, many- sided, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, misleading, misty, mixed, motley, multifaceted, multinational, multiracial, multivocal, mysterious, numinous, obscure, opaque, oracular, oxymoronic, paradoxical, past comprehension, patchy, pluralistic, polysemantic, polysemous, problematic, promiscuous, puzzling, questionable, rambling, scrambled, self- contradictory, skeptical, suspect, syncretic, tenebrous, thrown together, touch- and- go, unaccountable, uncertain, unclear, unconfirmable, unconnected, unconvinced, undefined, undependable, undivinable, unfathomable, unforeseeable, unintelligible, unknowable, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unreliable, unsearchable, unsettled, unsure, unverifiable, vague, variable, varied, wavering, whimsical
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