Definition of Ambiguous

Ambiguous

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.

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Ambiguous Quotations

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.
Jerry Garcia

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
Keith Richards

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
May Sarton

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.
Francis Crick

Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best.
Lindsey Buckingham

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.
Emily Blunt

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.
Joel Coen

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.
Fred Thompson

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.
Annie Lennox

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.
Isabelle Huppert

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.
Roman Jakobson

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.
James Ellroy

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
Felix Mendelssohn

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
Richard Lugar

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
Bernardo Bertolucci

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.
Clive Barker

As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place.
Hugh Dancy

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
Stephen Rea

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.
Kenzaburo Oe

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.
Susan Collins

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
Felix Mendelssohn

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.
Melvin Maddocks

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Ambiguous Translations

ambiguous in Danish is tvetydig
ambiguous in Dutch is dubbelzinnig, dubbelslachtig
ambiguous in German is verschwommen, mehrdeutig, Zweideutig, mehrdeutige
ambiguous in Spanish is ambiguo
ambiguous in Swedish is tvetydig

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