This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more

Another word for ambiguous

a-z
Adjective

  1. Liable to more than one interpretation

    See also:

    clear

    certain

  2. Not affording certainty

    Idioms:
    See also:

    clear

    certain

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for ambiguous

Modifier
  1. See also:

    obscure

    See syn. study at

    obscure

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Her songs are intentionally ambiguous.

  • The ending was more ambiguous, one in which the future of the world was in question.

  • There are a number of specific issues left somewhat ambiguous in the document.

  • The modern work is deliberately ambiguous.

  • They thus occupied an ambiguous position on the borders of Judaism.

More sentences →

Related Articles

More Articles →

Words that mention ambiguous in the Dictionary

Words near ambiguous in the Thesaurus