It is unclear in Patterson's experiment whether the output objects fully correspond to the designed models.
Source: tatoeba (35215)
Unclear
//ʌnˈklɪɚ//
Synonyms for "unclear" (146 found)
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indeterminableindeterminateindistinctindistinguishableinexactinformkaleidoscopiclaxlightlooselowlow profilelow-profilelumpenmerely glimpsedmistymuddymurkymurmuredmysterious
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nebulousnondescriptnonspecificobscureopaqueopenorderlessout of focuspaleperplexingpianissimopianoproblematicrandomscarcely heardsemivisibleshadowed forthshadowyshakyshapelesssoftsoft-soundingsoft-voicedstochasticsubaudiblesubduedsuspectsweepingtenebrousthicktranscendentuncertainundecidedundefinedundestinedundeterminedunintelligibleunorderedunorganizedunplainunreadableunrecognizableunsettledunspecifiedunsureveiledweakweak-voicedwhispered
Adjective(2 words)
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
2 entriesrelated to
14 entriessimilar
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
Translations
61 translations across 26 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἀσαφής adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
- ἀσαφής adj (not easy to see or read; indecipherable or unreadable)
Belarusian
1 entries- няя́сны adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Bulgarian
1 entries- нея́сен adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 不明顯 /不明显 adj (not clearly or explicitly defined)
- 不清 adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Czech
2 entries- nejasný adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
- nejasný adj (not clearly or explicitly defined)
Finnish
4 entries- epäselvä adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
- epäselvä adj (not clearly or explicitly defined)
- epäselvä adj (not easy to see or read; indecipherable or unreadable)
- monitulkintainen adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
German
4 entries- undeutlich adj (not easy to see or read; indecipherable or unreadable)
- unklar adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
- unklar adj (not clearly or explicitly defined)
- unübersichtlich adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Greek
2 entries- αδιευκρίνιστος adj (not clearly or explicitly defined)
- ασαφής adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Hungarian
3 entries- homályos adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
- ködös adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
- tisztázatlan adj (not clearly or explicitly defined)
Italian
4 entries- ambiguo adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
- confuso adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
- illeggibile adj (not easy to see or read; indecipherable or unreadable)
- impreciso adj (not clearly or explicitly defined)
Japanese
1 entries- 不明 adj (not clearly or explicitly defined)
Lithuanian
1 entries- neaiškus adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Macedonian
1 entries- неја́сен adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Māori
2 entries- hākirikiri adj (not easy to see or read; indecipherable or unreadable)
- ngau adj (not easy to see or read; indecipherable or unreadable)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- onkloa adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Polish
2 entries- niejasny adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
- niejasny adj (not clearly or explicitly defined)
Portuguese
2 entries- confuso adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
- confuso adj (not clearly or explicitly defined)
Romanian
2 entries- ambiguu adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
- neclar adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Russian
4 entries- непоня́тный adj (not clearly or explicitly defined)
- нечёткий adj (not easy to see or read; indecipherable or unreadable)
- нея́сный adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
- нея́сный adj (not clearly or explicitly defined)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nejasan adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
- нејасан adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Slovak
1 entries- nejasný adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Slovene
1 entries- nejasen adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Spanish
4 entries- ambiguo adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
- confuso adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
- confuso adj (not clearly or explicitly defined)
- equívoco adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Turkish
1 entries- bulanık adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Ukrainian
2 entries- нечітки́й adj (not easy to see or read; indecipherable or unreadable)
- нея́сний adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Yiddish
1 entries- אומקלאָר adj (ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Their scope and shape is unclear.
Source: tatoeba (41976)
What he said is still unclear to me.
Source: tatoeba (285254)
His reason for not going is still unclear.
Source: tatoeba (286254)
Showing 4 of 15 available sentences.
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