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Etymology
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ambiguus (“moving from side to side, of doubtful nature”), from ambigere (“to go about, wander, doubt”), from ambi- (“around, about, on both sides”) + agere (“to drive, move”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
ambiguous (comparative more ambiguous, superlative most ambiguous)
- Open to multiple interpretations.
- The politician was criticized for his ambiguous statements and lack of precision.
- Vague and unclear.
- He gave an ambiguous answer.
- (obsolete, of persons) Hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury
- And forasmuch as in this same question I am ambiguous, and Simplicius is resolute....
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Translations
open to multiple interpretations
- Albanian: i dykuptueshëm
- Arabic: غَامِض (ḡāmiḍ)
- Armenian: երկիմաստ (hy) (erkimast)
- Asturian: ambiguu
- Bulgarian: двусмислен (bg) (dvusmislen)
- Catalan: ambigu (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 模稜兩可／模棱两可 (zh) (móléngliǎngkě), 模稜两可 (zh) (móléng liǎngkě)
- Czech: mnohoznačný (cs) m
- Danish: tvetydig (da), flertydig (da), dobbelttydig
- Dutch: meerduidig (nl), dubbelzinnig (nl), ambigu (nl)
- Esperanto: ambigua (eo)
- Finnish: tulkinnanvarainen
- French: ambigu (fr)
- Galician: ambiguo
- Georgian: ორაზროვანი (orazrovani)
- German: mehrdeutig (de) (doppeldeutig (de), zweideutig (de))
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀμφίβολος (amphíbolos)
- Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: többértelmű, kétértelmű (hu), nem egyértelmű
- Icelandic: óskýr
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- Indonesian: rancu (id), kabur (id)
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- Italian: ambiguo (it) m
- Japanese: 曖昧な (ja) (aimai na)
- Korean: 모호한 (mohohan)
- Latin: ambiguus
- Macedonian: двосмислен m (dvosmislen)
- Maori: rangirua
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: flertydig, tvetydig (no)
- Polish: wieloznaczny (pl), dwuznaczny (pl)
- Portuguese: ambíguo (pt), dúbio (pt)
- Romanian: ambiguu (ro), cu multe sensuri
- Russian: двусмы́сленный (ru) (dvusmýslennyj), неоднозначный (ru) (neodnoznačnyj), многозначный (ru) (mnogoznačnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: višeznačan (sh) m, dvosmislen (sh) m
- Slovene: dvoumen
- Spanish: ambiguo (es)
- Swedish: tvetydig (sv), dubbeltydig (sv), (osäker (sv))
- Tagalog: talohimig, taluhimig
- Thai: คลุมเครือ (klum kreua), กำกวม (th) (gam-guuam)
- Turkish: belirsiz (tr)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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vague and unclear
- Bulgarian: неясен (bg) (nejasen)
- Catalan: ambigu (ca)
- Danish: dunkel (da), forblommet
- Dutch: vaag (nl), onduidelijk (nl), ambigu (nl)
- Esperanto: ambigua (eo)
- Finnish: epäselvä (fi), moniselitteinen
- French: ambigu (fr) m
- Galician: ambiguo
- German: unklar (de), vage (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient Greek: ἀμφίβολος (amphíbolos)
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- Hungarian: félreérthető (hu), kétértelmű (hu), homályos (hu)
- Japanese: 曖昧な (ja) (aimai na)
- Macedonian: нејасен m (nejasen)
- Norwegian: vag, uklar (no)
- Portuguese: ambíguo (pt), dúbio (pt), vago (pt), indefinido (pt), impreciso (pt)
- Russian: двусмысленный (ru) (dvusmyslennyj), неясный (ru) (nejasnyj), неопределённый (ru) (neopredeljónnyj), неоднозначный (ru) (neodnoznačnyj), сомнительный (ru) (somnitelʹnyj), путанный (ru) (putannyj), нечёткий (ru) (nečótkij), противоречивый (ru) (protivorečivyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: nejasan (sh) m
- Spanish: ambiguo (es)
- Swedish: vag (sv), dunkel (sv), svävande (sv)
- Vietnamese: mơ hồ (vi)
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See also
Further reading
- “ambiguous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “ambiguous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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