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ambiguous

/am-big-yoo-uhs/US // æmˈbɪg yu əs //UK // (æmˈbɪɡjʊəs) //

含糊不清,含糊不清的,模糊不清,模糊不清的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal: an ambiguous answer.
    • : Linguistics. exhibiting constructional homonymity; having two or more structural descriptions, as the sequence Flying planes can be dangerous.
    • : of doubtful or uncertain nature; difficult to comprehend, distinguish, or classify: a rock of ambiguous character.
    • : lacking clearness or definiteness; obscure; indistinct: an ambiguous shape;an ambiguous future.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.having more than one meaning

Examples

  • Those metrics provide a very clear way to benchmark performance—something that doesn’t exist for many real-world problems, where the most effective move may be far more ambiguous and the entire concept of “winning” may not apply.

  • The question was ambiguous as stated, so I gave credit for both answers.

  • Such questions routinely prompt ambiguous and gendered responses.

  • Finally, as some readers observed, the original puzzle was slightly ambiguous as written.

  • In those ambiguous cases, mathematicians have additional tools at their disposal.

  • But what is it like to be the embodiment of that, as an ethnically ambiguous individual?

  • We can only speculate as to the intentions behind these ambiguous words.

  • Even the Biblical roots of gender are more ambiguous than people think.

  • The writer has followed a rule but compromised clarity; whether the vote or the approval was immediate is ambiguous.

  • “The subject area in question is subjective and ambiguous,” he wrote.

  • Some few of them however (perhaps from my want of Judgment) seem so ambiguous, as to want a little Explanation.

  • In some cases proper evidence may be used to identify things where the description in the will is ambiguous.

  • It was a claiming touch, and there was something in the unfolded sweetness of her face that was not ambiguous.

  • I am not without resources; but his civil ambiguous silence, by feeding my hopes, has encreased my difficulties.

  • To think of a chap writing such a veiled, ambiguous, absolutely botched sentence, and cooking up such a mess!