equivocal

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

ambiguous

unequivocal univocal unambiguous

equivocally equivocalness