Usually means: Unclear, open to multiple interpretations.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word ambiguous:

General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. ambiguous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ambiguous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ambiguous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ambiguous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ambiguous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ambiguous, ambiguous: Wordnik
  7. ambiguous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ambiguous: Wiktionary
  9. ambiguous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ambiguous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ambiguous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ambiguous, ambiguous: Dictionary.com
  13. ambiguous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ambiguous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ambiguous (film), Ambiguous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ambiguous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ambiguous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ambiguous: Rhymezone
  19. ambiguous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ambiguous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ambiguous: Free Dictionary
  22. ambiguous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ambiguous: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. ambiguous: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. ambiguous: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ambiguous: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ambiguous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ambiguous: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ambiguous: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. ambiguous: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ambiguous: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ambiguously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Open to multiple interpretations.
adjective:  (obsolete, of a person) Hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides.

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