ambiguously
3
6.7
- adverb
- /æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs.li/
:
de manera ambigua
- The instructions were written so ambiguously that no one knew what to do next.
- ambiguously defined
- ambiguously interpreted
- ambiguously worded
Most of them refer ambiguously to the past and the present.
- Most of them refer ambiguously to the past and the present.
- It's reducing that stress that is created by having this ambiguously long list of potential tasks that you need to do.
- And I think by and large, a lot of stories that end ambiguously are more satisfying because they're they feel more real.
- His protagonists are ambiguously caught in a process not only of dissolution entropy, but of transformation.
Examples
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Power is perceived to be ambiguously gendered, and creativity is the mechanism whereby women conceive kings.
Academic text (1998) -
The day when the screenwriting course ends is ambiguously described in the brochure.
Fiction book (1996) -
However, two of these states may be said to be ambiguously southern.
Academic text (2003) -
Most of them refer ambiguously to the past and the present.
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What used to be regarded as human nature may now, or soon, be only ambiguously natural.
Academic text (2000) -
It's reducing that stress that is created by having this ambiguously long list of potential tasks that you need to do.
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And I think by and large, a lot of stories that end ambiguously are more satisfying because they're they feel more real.
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A simple and focused topic with significant implications for human experience is preferable to large, ambiguously defined topics.
Academic text (2000) -
Even sympathetic reviewers have reacted ambiguously to matters of race.
Academic text (1998) -
The category of firearms considered NFA items is ambiguously and arbitrarily defined.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
115
3.9
Not clearly or with few details
3
8.1
In a way that hides the true meaning
3
4.0
In a way that makes it hard to understand
2
7.7
In a way that is not clear and hard to understand
1
4.4
Not clear or hard to understand
In an unclear way that people can understand differently
Antonyms
How Ambiguous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ambiguously comes from the parts ambi- 'both' and agere 'to drive or go', so it once meant moving or choosing between two ways. That's why to speak ambiguously is to say something that can be read in more than one way and so is 'unclear'.