Ambiguous meaning

Synonyms for "ambiguous meaning" (20 found)

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Strong matches (6)

Noun(6 words)
fuzzygrammatical ambiguityimpreciseindeterminatelayeredlexical ambiguity

Related words (10)

Noun(10 words)
obscureopen to interpretationpolysemystructural ambiguitysyntactic ambiguityuncertaintyunclearvaguevaguenessword sense ambiguity

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adjectivedescriptive termgrammarlinguistic descriptormeaningsemantics

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17 entries
ambiguous instructionambiguous questionambiguous sentenceequivocalequivocal wordingfuzzy wordinggarden path sentencehomonymyimprecise phrasinglexical ambiguityobscurepoetic ambiguitypolysemypragmatic ambiguitysymbolic ambiguitysyntactic ambiguity

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Collocations

10 entries
ambiguous instructionambiguous languageambiguous questionambiguous resultambiguous statementcontext dependent meaninglexical ambiguitymultiple meaningssemantic ambiguityunclear meaning

Inflections

3 entries
ambiguous meaningsmore ambiguousmost ambiguous

Derivations

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