Ambiguous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AMBIGUOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• open to more than one interpretation
• open to more than one interpretation; not having one obvious meaning
• not clear or decided
• having more than one possible meaning
• 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.
• open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead
• having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness; inexplicable

Words related to AMBIGUOUS

ambiguously19 ambiguousness18 equivocal23

Words that contain AMBIGUOUS

ambiguously19 unambiguous16 nonambiguous17 ambiguousness18 unambiguously21 ambiguousnesses20

How to use AMBIGUOUS in a sentence

• In this ambiguous feeling, however, the sense of attraction immensely prevailed.
• In this ambiguous frame of mind he entered the temple.
• Your reports are ambiguous, and I am undecided whether you are taking the boy seriously or as a joke.
• Later, and it streamed in fight When tempest mingled with the fray, And over the spear-point of the shaft I saw the ambiguous lightning play.
• This was too ambiguous for the other leaders, and the opportunity was allowed to pass.
• He says, it is not only ambiguous by reason of its different uses in the Latin classics, but destitute of any signification proper to grammar.
• Early in 1170 he again sought Henry and this time received an ambiguous reply, which, however, he chose to interpret in his own favour.
• But as they got there nothing but ambiguous engagements and evasive promises, they let the negotiation drop, and, whilst Count Louis was on his way to rejoin Philip at St.
• If indeed they were ambiguous in their terms, a resort to the history of those times would set the matter at rest for ever.
• During that time Socialism has become a more and more ambiguous term.
• That is, however, a very ambiguous title, which I would beg to decline.
• The keeper once more made his appearance, and with his former constitutional and ambiguous humanity.
• There is no term in political philosophy more ambiguous and lax in its meaning than Luxury.
• The dark and seemingly ambiguous method of conveying important discoveries under figures and emblems was not peculiar to the sacred books.
• Domingo, many of whom were intelligent and wealthy, passed a decree intended to be in their favor, but so ambiguous as to be construed in favor of both the whites and the blacks.
• Their task was merely to deliver the royal letter, to explain its terms, if they were ambiguous, and to carry back to their own monarch the reply of the foreign sovereign.
• Information is raw data from any source that may be fragmentary, contradictory, unreliable, ambiguous, deceptive, or wrong.
• Should the answer be ambiguous, you must then act as your judgment may direct you, and I am sure that will be very proper.
• Antonius summoned a mass meeting and delivered a eulogy upon his victorious army, promising mercy to the vanquished and speaking of Cremona in ambiguous terms.
• For he had quite enough of Phocion in him to feel, if not to say, that he must have said something at least ambiguous, when the multitude applauded.
• Thompson wondered if that was why Sam Carr looked at Tommy with that ambiguous expression when Tommy was chanting his work or fight philosophy.
• Whether the elder lady was equally deceived by his ambiguous phrases, it was not so easy to declare.
• He uses simple language, and he never takes refuge in vague and ambiguous phrases.
• Even then he seems to have been rather ambiguous in his explanations.
• But yet in a very little after flinched from, and became generally so dumb, silent, indifferent or ambiguous to the admiration of many, so that people knew not what to construct.
• In proportion as Henry advanced in years, his character became fully known in the court, and was no longer ambiguous to either faction.
• Elena has gone away, leaving an ambiguous letter behind her, saying that she wished her Madonna to be given to me, as she would have no need of it in the place she was going to.
• All his motions are ambiguous and awkward to the casual observer.
• The white outline of the smaller tents had a sort of phantom look in the ambiguous light, but the open doors of the principal one showed a strong illumination.
• But his words are quite ambiguous, and such of the articles he mentions as are found in Britain are clearly of native manufacture.
• Policy now led her to profess acceptance of the Roman religion, but in very ambiguous fashion.
• II Later, and it streamed in fight When tempest mingled with the fray, And over the spear-point of the shaft I saw the ambiguous lightning play.
• Section 2172, recognizing the citizenship of the children of naturalized parents, is ambiguous in its terms and partly obsolete.
• All that had been alien or ambiguous became as close and true and simple as the thoughts in her own mind.
• The Whig attitude on the slavery question was too ambiguous to appeal to the North.
• That it included whites as well as negroes in its ambiguous welcome is equally evident.

Similar words containing AMBIGUOU without suffix s

ambiguously19 unambiguous16 nonambiguous17 ambiguousness18 unambiguously21 ambiguousnesses20

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