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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead;
- Example: "an equivocal statement"
- Example: "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"
- Example: "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"
- Example: "popularity is an equivocal crown"
- Example: "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question"
[syn: equivocal, ambiguous]

2. having more than one possible meaning;
- Example: "ambiguous words"
- Example: "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"

3. having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns;
- Example: "an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"
- Example: "ambiguous inkblots"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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" [syn: 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"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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