Definition of Ambiguous

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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

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

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

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

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

All knowledge is ambiguous.
J. S. Habgood

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

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

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

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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