equivocal

Meanings

Plural: equivocals

Adjective

• open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead
  • "an equivocal statement"
  • "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"
  • "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"
  • "popularity is an equivocal crown"
  • "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question"

Adjective Satellite

• open to question; ; -Anna Jameson
  • "aliens of equivocal loyalty"
  • "his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son"
• uncertain as a sign or indication
  • "the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal"

Adj

• Having two or more equally applicable meanings; capable of double or multiple interpretation.
• Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected.
• Uncertain, as an indication or sign.

Noun

• A word or expression capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term.

Synonyms

ambiguous, double entendre, doubtful, equivoque, incongruous, indeterminate, uncertain

Antonyms

certain, unequivocal, univocal

Related Words

equivocation, equivoque

Anagrams of equivocal