- 1that can be understood in more than one way; having different meanings an ambiguous word/term/statement Her account was deliberately ambiguous.
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- 2not clearly stated or defined His role has always been ambiguous. opposite unambiguous
an ambiguously worded agreementSee ambiguous in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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