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Synonyms for ambiguously
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : am-big-yoo-uhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : æmˈbɪg yu əs |
Top 10 synonyms for ambiguously
- distrustfully
- doubtingly
- drunkenly
- frantically
- frenziedly
- hazily
- hesitatingly
- illegibly
- illogically
- incomprehensibly
- indistinctly
- ineptly
- irresolutely
- obscurely
- problematically
- questionably
- randomly
- sloppily
- spasmodically
- suspiciously
- tentatively
- uncertainly
- unclearly
- undecidedly
- unintelligibly
- unrecognizably
- unsettingly
- unsurely
- unsystematically
- wildly
Définition of ambiguously
Origin :- 1520s, from Latin ambiguus "having double meaning, shifting, changeable, doubtful," adjective derived from ambigere "to dispute about," literally "to wander," from ambi- "about" (see ambi-) + agere "drive, lead, act" (see act). Sir Thomas More (1528) seems to have first used it in English, but ambiguity dates back to c.1400. Related: Ambiguously; ambiguousness.
- As in incoherently : adv inarticulately
- As in vaguely : adv unclearly
- As in doubtfully : adv skeptically
- "No time like the present to learn a lesson," she replied, ambiguously.
- Extract from : « The Dude Wrangler » by Caroline Lockhart
- You write so ambiguously about it that I cannot make out the exact thing.
- Extract from : « Wagner as I Knew Him » by Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger
- Ambiguously—no other word did justice to the complexity of his facial expression.
- Extract from : « The Return of the Prodigal » by May Sinclair
- I did not press for an explanation of this speech, that sounded so ambiguously strange.
- Extract from : « The Bandolero » by Mayne Reid
- "I am glad to know that the great book is safe," answered Giovanni ambiguously.
- Extract from : « Marietta » by F. Marion Crawford
- "By gracious, that accounts for a whole lot," he said ambiguously.
- Extract from : « The Happy Family » by Bertha Muzzy Bower
- Whatever his own disposition, his ear has been hitherto deaf to their hints, timidly, and ambiguously given.
- Extract from : « Gwen Wynn » by Mayne Reid
- Many more of these particles are inelegantly, if not ambiguously used.
- Extract from : « Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected » by Anonymous
- So many things may occur within the next few days that such an ambiguously worded document might prove of the utmost value.
- Extract from : « The Laughing Cavalier » by Baroness Orczy
- Secondarily, the thing itself is ambiguously said to be true in the sense of being signified as it is.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 8 » by Various
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