ambiguous

(a) 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
equivocal,
(a) having more than one possible meaning
- ambiguous words
- frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy
(s) having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns
- an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference
- ambiguous inkblots

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