adjective. Open to more than one interpretation.

adjective. Doubtful or uncertain.

Of doubtful or uncertain nature; wanting clearness or definiteness; difficult to comprehend or distinguish; indistinct; obscure.

Of doubtful purport; open to various interpretations; having a double meaning; equivocal.

Wavering; undecided; hesitating: as, “ambiguous in all their doings,” Milton, Eikono-klastes (1649), p. 239.

Using obscure or equivocal language.

Synonyms Equivocal, etc. (see obscure), indeterminate, indefinite, indistinct, not clear, not plain, amphibolous, dubious, vague, enigmatical, dark, blind.

adjective. Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal

adjective. Open to multiple interpretations.

adjective. Vague and unclear.

adjective. Of persons: hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides.

adjective. open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead

adjective. having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns

adjective. having more than one possible meaning

"Chapter, and is when we speake or write doubtfully and that the sence may be taken two wayes, such ambiguous termes they call _Amphibologia_, we call it the _ambiguous_, or figure of sence incertaine, as if one should say _Thomas Tayler_ saw _William Tyler_ dronke, it is indifferent to thinke either th'one or th'other dronke."

definite  precise  specific  unambiguous  unquestionable  

contradictory  

double  double-barreled  double-barrelled  double-edged  enigmatic  

ambiguate  ambiguation  ambiguity  disambiguation  

contiguous  

confuse  contradictory  cryptic  dubious  equivocal  

Greek to one  agnostic  amalgamated  ambivalent  amphibious