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ambiguous - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: ambiguous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: having more than one meaning
Synonyms: cryptic, doubtful, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, inconclusive, indefinite, indeterminate, muddy, obscure, opaque, puzzling, questionable, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, unintelligible, vague, clear as dishwater, enigmatical, inexplicit, multivocal, polysemous
Notes: ambiguous is vague by accident or intent; equivocal is vague by intent
Antonyms: clear, definite, explicit, lucid
Main Entry: backhanded
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: underhanded
Synonyms: ambiguous, equivocal, sarcastic, sardonic, double-edged, two-edged
Main Entry: borderline
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: inexact
Synonyms: ambiguous, ambivalent, doubtful, equivocal, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, marginal, open, problematic, uncertain, unclear, undecided, unsettled, dubitable, unclassifiable
Antonyms: certain, definite, exact, sure
Main Entry: cryptic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: secret; obscure in meaning
Synonyms: abstruse, ambiguous, apocryphal, arcane, cabalistic, dark, enigmatic, equivocal, esoteric, evasive, hidden, incomprehensible, inexplicable, murky, mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, opaque, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secretive, strange, tenebrous, unclear, unfathomable, vague, veiled, Delphian, Delphic, mystifying, uninformative
Antonyms: clear, obvious, plain, straightforward, seen
Main Entry: deceptive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest
Synonyms: ambiguous, bum*, catchy, crafty, cunning, deceitful, delusive, designing, disingenuous, fake, fallacious, false, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, illusory, indirect, insidious, lying, misleading, mock, oblique, off*, phony, plausible, rascal, roguish, scheming, seeming, serpentine, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, snide, specious, spurious, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, underhand, underhanded, unreliable, wily, astucious, beguiling, deceiving, deluding, delusory, imposturous
Antonyms: forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright
Main Entry: elusive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: evasive, mysterious
Synonyms: ambiguous, baffling, cagey, deceitful, deceptive, equivocal, evanescent, fallacious, fleeting, fraudulent, fugitive, greasy, illusory, incomprehensible, insubstantial, intangible, misleading, occult, phantom, puzzling, shifty, shy, slippery, subtle, transient, transitory, tricky, volatile, difficult to catch, elusory, fugacious, imponderable, indefinable, stonewalling, unspecific
Antonyms: confronting, facing, inviting, attracting, encountering, enticing
Main Entry: enigmatic/enigmatical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mysterious
Synonyms: ambiguous, cryptic, dark, doubtful, equivocal, incomprehensible, indecipherable, inexplicable, inscrutable, obscure, occult, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secret, teasing, uncertain, unfathomable, unintelligible, Delphian, Sibylline, sphinxlike, stickling, stumping
Antonyms: clear, obvious, unmysterious
Main Entry: equivocal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: doubtful, uncertain
Synonyms: ambiguous, ambivalent, borderline, disreputable, dubious, evasive, fishy*, fuzzy*, hazy*, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, misleading, muddled, oblique, obscure, open, problematic, puzzling, questionable, suspect, suspicious, tenebrous, unclear, undecided, unintelligible, vague, amphibological, clear as mud, clouded, muzzy, unexplicit, with mixed feelings
Antonyms: certain, clear, definite, determined, obvious, plain, sure, unequivocal, unquestionable
Main Entry: evasive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deceitful, tricky
Synonyms: ambiguous, cagey, cunning, deceptive, devious, elusive, false, fugitive, greasy, indirect, intangible, lying, misleading, oblique, shifty, slippery, sly, unclear, vague, casuistic, casuistical, dissembling, elusory, equivocating, prevaricating, shuffling, sophistical, stonewalling
Antonyms: direct, forthright, honest, ready, straight, straightforward
Main Entry: fishy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: doubtful, suspicious
Synonyms: ambiguous, dubious, equivocal, far-fetched, funny, implausible, improbable, odd, problematic, queer, questionable, shady, suspect, uncertain, unlikely, doubtable, dubitable
Antonyms: aboveboard, honest, likely, probable, real, truthful, unquestionable, unsuspicious
Main Entry: inconclusive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: up in the air
Synonyms: ambiguous, deficient, incomplete, indecisive, indeterminate, lacking, open, uncertain, unconvincing, undecided, uneventful, unfinished, unsatisfactory, unsettled, vague, unfateful
Antonyms: certain, conclusive, decisive, definite, sure
Main Entry: indirect
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: roundabout; unintended
Synonyms: ambiguous, ancillary, circuitous, circular, collateral, complicated, contingent, crooked, devious, discursive, duplicitous, erratic, eventual, implied, incidental, long, long-winded*, meandering, oblique, obscure, out-of-the-way, rambling, secondary, serpentine*, sinister, sinuous, sneaky, subsidiary, tortuous, underhand, vagrant, wandering, winding, zigzag, circumlocutory, long way home, long-drawn-out, periphrastic, sidelong, snaking, sneaking, twisting
Antonyms: direct, straight, straightforward
Main Entry: inscrutable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hidden, mysterious; blank
Synonyms: ambiguous, arcane, cabalistic, deadpan*, difficult, enigmatic, impenetrable, incomprehensible, inexplicable, mystic, secret, unaccountable, unfathomable, unintelligible, unreadable, mysterial, poker-faced*, sphinxlike, undiscoverable, unexplainable, unknowable
Antonyms: clear, comprehensible, evident, intelligible, obvious, plain
Main Entry: misleading
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deceptive, confusing
Synonyms: ambiguous, catchy, deceitful, delusive, disingenuous, evasive, fallacious, false, inaccurate, perplexing, puzzling, specious, spurious, tricky, wrong, beguiling, bewildering, casuistical, confounding, deceiving, deluding, delusory, demagogic, distracting, sophistical
Antonyms: honest, truthful
Main Entry: nebulous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: confused, obscure
Synonyms: ambiguous, amorphous, cloudy, dark, dim, hazy, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, misty, murky, shadowy, shapeless, uncertain, unclear, unformed, vague, imprecise
Antonyms: apparent, definite, obvious, plain
Main Entry: noncommittal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unwilling to decide
Synonyms: ambiguous, careful, cautious, circumspect, discreet, equivocal, evasive, guarded, hush-hush*, indefinite, judicious, middle-of-the-road*, neutral, politic, reserved, restrained, tactful, tentative, vague, wary, buttoned up, clammed up, constrained, even-steven, incommunicable, middle-ground, on-the-fence, temporizing, unrevealing, zipped
Antonyms: decisive, definite, willing, committal, judgemental
Main Entry: oracular
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: prophetic
Synonyms: ambiguous, apocalyptic, arcane, auspicious, authoritative, cabalistic, clairvoyant, cryptic, dogmatic, foreboding, imperious, mysterious, mystical, obscure, occult, ominous, peremptory, portentous, positive, prescient, sage, secret, significant, vague, venerable, wise, Delphian, anticipating, auguring, discovering, divining, divulging, fatidic, forecasting, foretelling, interpretive, mantic, portending, predicting, presaging, proclaiming, prognosticating, prophesying, sibylline, soothsaying, vatic
Main Entry: precarious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tricky, doubtful
Synonyms: ambiguous, borderline, chancy, contingent, dangerous, delicate, dicey*, dubious, dynamite, equivocal, hairy*, hazardous, iffy*, indecisive, insecure, loaded, open, out on a limb*, perilous, problematic, risky, rocky, rugged*, sensitive, shaky, slippery, ticklish, touchy, uncertain, unhealthy, unreliable, unsafe, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsure, hanging by a thread, impugnable, on thin ice, touch and go
Antonyms: certain, definite, firm, stable, strong, sure, undoubted
Main Entry: problematic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: open to doubt
Synonyms: ambiguous, arguable, chancy, debatable, disputable, doubtful, dubious, enigmatic, iffy*, indecisive, moot, open, precarious, puzzling, questionable, suspect, tricky, uncertain, unsettled, dubitable, problematical, up for grabs
Antonyms: certain, settled, solvable, sure, fixable
Main Entry: puzzling
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: confusing
Synonyms: abstruse, ambiguous, baffling, difficult, enigmatic, hard, incomprehensible, inexplicable, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, misleading, obscure, perplexing, surprising, unaccountable, unclear, unfathomable, bewildering, beyond one, mystifying
Antonyms: intelligible, understandable, comprehendible
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