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1. If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it is unclear or confusing because it can be understood in more than one way. This agreement is very ambiguous and open to various interpretations... = vague ? clear ADJ • ambiguously Zaire’s national conference on democracy ended ambiguously. ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj 2. If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it contains several different ideas or attitudes that do not fit well together. Students have ambiguous feelings about their role in the world. ADJ
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adjective Etymology: Latin ambiguus, from ambigere to be undecided, from ambi- + agere to drive — more at agent Date: 1528 1. a. doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness eyes of an ~ color b. inexplicable 2. capable of being understood in two or more possible senses or ways an ~ smile an ~ term a deliberately ~ reply Synonyms: see obscure • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. 1 having an obscure or double meaning. 2 difficult to classify. Derivatives ambiguously adv. ambiguousness n. Etymology: L ambiguus doubtful f. ambigere f. ambi- both ways + agere drive ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. двусмысленный ambiguous words —- двусмысленные слова 2. неясный, нечеткий; неопределенный; допускающий двоякое толкование; неоднозначный ambiguous answer —- неопределенный ответ ambiguous terms —- неопределенные условия ambiguous statement —- заявление, допускающее двоякое толкование ambiguous style —- неясный стиль undeniably ambiguous —- безусловно допускающий разное толкование eyes of an ambiguous colour —- глаза неопределенного цвета 3. неоднозначный; омонимичный the sentence is two ways ambiguous —- (это) предложение двузначно ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ adj 1 having more than one meaning, so that it is not clear which is intended (an ambiguous sentence) 2 difficult to understand (His role in the affair is ambiguous.) - ~ly adv - ambiguity n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1528, from L. ambiguus, adj. derived from ambigere "to dispute about," also, "to wander," from ambi- "about" + agere "drive, lead, act." Sir Thomas More (1528) seems to have first used it in Eng. Ambiguity (from L. ambiguitatem) first recorded 1400. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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