EQUIVOCAL as ADJECTIVE

  1. Meaning
    • uncertain as a sign or indication
    Usage Example(s)
    • the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal
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  2. Meaning
    • open to two or more interpretations
    • or of uncertain nature or significance
    • or (often) intended to mislead
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • an equivocal statement
    • the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates
    • the officer’’s equivo
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  3. Meaning
    • open to question
    Usage Example(s)
    • aliens of equivocal loyalty
    • his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son-Anna Jameson
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