AMBIGUOUS

AMBIG'UOUS, adjective [Latin ambiguus.]Having two or more meanings; doubtful; being of uncertain signification; susceptible of different interpretations; hence, obscure. It is applied to words and expressions; not to a dubious state of mind, though it may be to a person using words of doubtful signification.The ancient oracles were ambiguous as were their answers.

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ambiguous. ambiguous, doubtfull, vncertaine

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ambiguous. Ambiguous, a. doubtful, mysterious, hidden, dark

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Am‐big″u‐ous (�), a. [[L. ambiguus, fr. ambigere to wander about, waver; amb- + agere to drive.]] 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. What have been thy answers? What but dark, Ambiguous, and with double sense deluding? Milton. Syn. — Doubtful; dubious; uncertain; unsettled; indistinct; indeterminate; indefinite. See Equivocal.