Ambiguously

/æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs.li/

Synonyms for "ambiguously" (19 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Strong matches (6)

Related words (9)

Related word relations

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More general

2 entries
adverb of mannerlinguistic adverb

More specific

2 entries
semantic ambiguitysyntactic ambiguity

Collocations

6 entries
ambiguous conclusionambiguous dataambiguous resultsambiguously describedambiguously phrasedambiguously worded

Inflections

2 entries
more ambiguouslymost ambiguously

Derivations

2 entries

Antonyms

1 entries

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The context is the most important thing in a translation. A translator might forget a word, but if the context is clear enough to him, he could make himself understood with no problems, but if he gets an isolated sentence with no explanation, he might understand it ambiguously and he won't translate the real meaning from the original language. That's why you should always provide context when asking for a translator's help.

Source: tatoeba (2158561)

"The Stranger" was a dark, comely, youthful man's head, portentously looking out of a dark, shaded ground, and ambiguously smiling.

Source: wiktionary

The bisexual name, such as Marion and Carol (and Evelyn and Vivian in England), is frequently a source of annoyance and embarrassment to the letter writer, who, if he does not know his ambiguously named correspondent personally […]

Source: wiktionary

Such has always been the case: from the vamptastic and scantily clad Theda Bara as Cleopatra (1917) to the milk bath, gold chains, and lesbian dancing of Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross (1932) to the homoerotic bath of Crassus in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960), antiquity has provided an ambiguously liberated outlet for exploring contemporary fascinations – regardless of their historicity.

Source: wiktionary

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