形容词
1. 含糊不清的;不明确的;模棱两可的
If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it is unclear or confusing because it can be understood in more than one way.
1. having more than one possible meaning
e.g. ambiguous words
frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy
2. open to two or more interpretations
or of uncertain nature or significance
or (often) intended to mislead
e.g. 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
Synonym: equivocal
3. having no intrinsic or objective meaning
not organized in conventional patterns
e.g. an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference
ambiguous inkblots