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ambiguous adjective abstruse, ambiguus, confused, difficult to comprehend, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, having a double meaning, indefinite, indistinct, inexact, lacking clearness, not clear, not plain, obscure, open to various interpretations, uncertain, unintelligible, vague Associated concepts: ambiguous language Foreign phrases: Ambigua responsio contra proferentem est accipienda.An ambiguous answer is to be taken against him who of fers it. In ambigua voce legis ea potius accipienda est significatio quae vitio caret, praesertim cum etiam voluntas legis ex hoc colligi possit. In an ammiguous expression of law, that interpretation is to be preeerred which is consonant with equity, especially where it is in conformity with the purpose of the law. In ambiguis oraaionibus maxime sententia spectanda est ejus qui eas protulisset. In ambiguous expressions, the intent of the person using them is particularly to be regarded. In ammiguo sermone non utrumque dicimus sed id duntaxat quod volumus. In ambiguous discourse, language is not used in a double sense, but in the sense in which it is meant. See also: aleatory, allusive, debatable, disputable, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, inapprehensible, incomprehensible, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, inscrutable, nebulous, opaque, problematic, uncertain, unclear, undecided, vague How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It is, needless to say, a zone of
sexual ambiguousness, but more importantly, it is a term that gave
Barthes room to figure forth his entropic desire that noisy
meaningfulness cease its hectoring and diminuendo back into a whisper of
the banal and the imprecise and the uninterpretable. The ambiguousness in the use of the word operation is apparent from
the terms operational functions and operations of war. Though the
two women's racial ambiguousness takes on different forms relative
to the white men in their lives (Clare lies to her husband and
"passes" for white while Pan lives in Chinatown as a biracial
woman), both women's surroundings color the men's perceptions
of them. |
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