Synonyms for Ambiguous:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • ambiguous.
  •backhanded (adjective)
  • double-edged,
  • twoedged.
  •borderline (adjective)
  • unclassifiable.
  •complicated (adjective)
  • tortuous.
  •cryptic (adjective)
  • un fathomable,
  • in explicable,
  • opaque,
  • more delphian,
  • in comprehensible,
  • most delphic,
  • most delphian,
  • more uninformative,
  • mystifying,
  • in-comprehensible,
  • more delphic,
  • un informative,
  • un-informative,
  • in-explicable,
  • most uninformative,
  • un-fathomable.
  •deceptive (adjective)
  • Astucious,
  • snide,
  • Imposturous,
  • seeming.
  •devious (adjective)
  • most digressory,
  • more digressory,
  • flexuous,
  • most detouring,
  • re-mote,
  • most twisting,
  • most confounding,
  • most digressing,
  • more detouring,
  • more twisting,
  • de touring,
  • ex cursive,
  • re moved,
  • more digressing,
  • more confounding,
  • de-touring,
  • ex-cursive.
  •dishonest (adjective)
  • deceptive.
  •doubtful (adjective)
  • un easy,
  • impugnable,
  • more impugnable,
  • hazy,
  • most impugnable,
  • unconfirmed,
  • un easier,
  • in secure,
  • dis reputable,
  • most unconfirmed,
  • more doubtable,
  • un easiest,
  • un-sure,
  • un-easy,
  • uneasy,
  • un-easiest,
  • far fetched,
  • un-easier,
  • more unconfirmed,
  • in securer,
  • in-secure,
  • un-confirmed,
  • in-distinct,
  • in-securest,
  • un sure,
  • in-securer,
  • un confirmed,
  • in securest,
  • in distinct,
  • most doubtable,
  • dis-reputable.
  •dubious (adjective)
  • mis trustful,
  • mistrustful,
  • mis-trustful,
  • dis inclined,
  • dis-inclined.
  •elusive (adjective)
  • most phantom,
  • evanescent,
  • in tangible,
  • more unspecific,
  • more stonewalling,
  • in-tangible,
  • most elusory,
  • in-substantial,
  • un-specific,
  • more phantom,
  • more elusory,
  • in substantial,
  • most stonewalling,
  • fugacious,
  • in-definable,
  • in definable,
  • most unspecific,
  • difficult catch,
  • un specific.
  •enigmatic/enigmatical (adjective)
  • most sphinxlike,
  • most stickling,
  • sibylline,
  • in decipherable,
  • in-decipherable,
  • most enigmatic,
  • more stickling,
  • more stumping,
  • most stumping,
  • more sphinxlike,
  • teasing.
  •equivocal (adjective)
  • double entendre,
  • muzzy,
  • unexplicit,
  • Amphibolic,
  • study atobscure,
  • clear as mud,
  • double-entendre,
  • Amphibological,
  • with mixed feelings.
  •evasive (adjective)
  • sophistical,
  • casuistic,
  • casuistical.
  •fishy (adjective)
  • un likeliest,
  • un likely,
  • un-likeliest,
  • un-likely,
  • un-likelier,
  • un likelier,
  • funnier.
  •having more than one meaning (adjective)
  • Multivocal,
  • clear as dishwater,
  • muddy,
  • polysemous,
  • puzzling,
  • indeterminate.
  •inconclusive (adjective)
  • un-eventful,
  • un convincing,
  • in-conclusive,
  • in complete,
  • most unfateful,
  • un satisfactory,
  • more unfateful,
  • incomplete,
  • un fateful,
  • in conclusive,
  • un eventful,
  • un-finished,
  • in-complete,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • unfateful,
  • un-fateful,
  • un finished,
  • un-convincing.
  •indirect (adjective)
  • most circumlocutory,
  • dis-cursive,
  • periphrastic,
  • long drawn out,
  • dis cursive,
  • more snaking,
  • more sidelong,
  • more circumlocutory,
  • implied,
  • in direct,
  • long winded,
  • most sidelong,
  • most vagrant,
  • in-direct,
  • more vagrant,
  • most snaking.
  •inexact (adjective)
  • in exact,
  • in-exact.
  •inscrutable (adjective)
  • more mysterial,
  • more poker faced,
  • in-scrutable,
  • most poker faced,
  • most mysterial,
  • un discoverable,
  • un accountable,
  • most undiscoverable,
  • un readable,
  • more undiscoverable,
  • un-discoverable,
  • in scrutable,
  • un knowable,
  • un-knowable,
  • un-explainable,
  • more unknowable,
  • un explainable,
  • un-accountable,
  • poker faced,
  • more poker-faced,
  • un-readable,
  • most poker-faced,
  • most unknowable.
  •meandrous (adjective)
  • Meandrous.
  •misleading (adjective)
  • most bewildering,
  • most demagogic,
  • be wildering,
  • in accurate,
  • mis leading,
  • more distracting,
  • more bewildering,
  • more demagogic,
  • most distracting,
  • mis-leading,
  • be-wildering.
  •nebulous (adjective)
  • imprecise.
  •noncommittal (adjective)
  • even steven,
  • even-steven,
  • on-the-fence,
  • clammed up,
  • Middle-ground,
  • unrevealing,
  • buttoned up,
  • non-committal.
  •obscured (adjective)
  • more cover,
  • most cover.
  •open (adjective)
  • yet to be decided,
  • in question,
  • up for discussion.
  •oracular (adjective)
  • portentous,
  • Predicting.
  •precarious (adjective)
  • un-healthiest,
  • hanging by a thread,
  • pre carious,
  • un safer,
  • un safe,
  • un healthier,
  • un safest,
  • touch go,
  • un-safest,
  • un healthy,
  • un healthiest,
  • out limb,
  • un-healthy,
  • more dynamite,
  • pre-carious,
  • out a limb,
  • un-safe,
  • most dynamite,
  • un-safer.
  •puzzling (adjective)
  • sur prising,
  • sur-prising.
  •questionable (adjective)
  • hypo-thetical,
  • open doubt,
  • most controvertible,
  • hypo thetical,
  • most paradoxical,
  • more controvertible,
  • more unproven,
  • most unproven,
  • un proven,
  • more paradoxical,
  • un-proven,
  • hard believe,
  • pro visional.
  •roundabout (adjective)
  • taking the long way,
  • obliquitous.
  •secret (adjective)
  • conspiratorial,
  • Shrouded,
  • under ground,
  • cloak and dagger,
  • backdoor,
  • under cover,
  • under wraps.
  •tenebrous (adjective)
  • unlit,
  • most unilluminated,
  • more unilluminated,
  • unilluminated,
  • more unlit,
  • dusker,
  • more lightless,
  • most lightless,
  • un illuminated,
  • duskest,
  • un-illuminated,
  • lightless,
  • most unlit.
  •tortuous (adjective)
  • in volute,
  • in-volute.
  •tottery (adjective)
  • tottery.
  •ulterior (adjective)
  • Obscured,
  • Undivulged.
  •unapt (adjective)
  • un-apter,
  • un aptest,
  • un-aptest,
  • un apter.
  •uncertain (adjective)
  • unfixed.
  •unclear (adjective)
  • un-clearer,
  • un-clearest,
  • un clearer,
  • un clearest,
  • un-clear,
  • un clear.
  •undefined (adjective)
  • un defined,
  • un-defined.
  •unintelligible (adjective)
  • ungraspable,
  • fathomless,
  • incognizable.
  •unstable (adjective)
  • un stable,
  • un-stable.
  •unstable/unsteady (adjective)
  • un-steadiest,
  • un stabler,
  • most weaving,
  • in-consistent,
  • wiggliest,
  • more teetering,
  • in consistent,
  • un-stablest,
  • un steady,
  • un-steady,
  • un-steadier,
  • un steadier,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • un stablest,
  • un steadiest,
  • more weaving,
  • most teetering,
  • Teetering,
  • unsteadiest,
  • more fluctuating,
  • mutable,
  • un-stabler,
  • unsteady,
  • wigglier.
  •vague (adjective)
  • un specified,
  • mis understood,
  • more blurred,
  • most generalized,
  • un-specified,
  • illdefined,
  • unspecified,
  • ill defined,
  • mis-understood,
  • more generalized.
  •winding (adjective)
  • maziest,
  • mazier,
  • wriggliest,
  • wrigglier,
  • more spiraling,
  • more gyrating,
  • most spiraling,
  • most gyrating.

• n.

  •
  • ill-defined,
  • ambiguity,
  • hollow.
  •ambivalent (noun)
  • ambivalent.
  •double (noun)
  • double.
  •double-barreled (noun)
  • double-barreled.
  •double-barrelled (noun)
  • double-barrelled.
  •forked (noun)
  • forked.
  •multi-valued (noun)
  • multi-valued.
  •multivalent (noun)
  • multivalent.
  •polysemantic (noun)
  • polysemantic.
  •unstructured (noun)
  • unstructured.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • null,
  • wooly,
  • abstruse,
  • clouded,
  • dubitable,
  • nonsense,
  • ironic,
  • meaningless,
  • Two-edged,
  • inexplicit,
  • chancy.
  •
  • unsure,
  • vaguely,
  • iffy,
  • inconclusive,
  • problematical,
  • difficult.
  •
  • indecisive,
  • mysterious.
  •awkward
  • embarrassing.
  •inaccurate
  • inexact.
  •vivid
  • graphic.

Paraphrases for Ambiguous:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    vague, equivocal, uncertain.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    unambiguous.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    dubious, obscure, blurred, imprecise, misleading, ambitious, questionable, controversial, opaque, doubtful, confused, fuzzy, shadowy, Half-hearted, ill-defined, woolly, contentious, unspecific, unequivocal, double-edged, inconsistent, clear, mixed, conflicting, indistinct, unexplained, suspicious, hazy, blurry, unknown.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    ambivalent, confusing, mysterious, contradictory.

Antonyms for Ambiguous:

• adj.

  • all
    unambiguous, unequivocal.
  • having more than one meaning
    sure, plain, determined, understandable, known, certain, lucid, definite, clear, unquestionable, obvious, explicit.
  • Other antonyms:
    manifest, defined, comprehensible, unquestioned, legible, fathomable, firm, knowable, self-evident, bright, monosemous, exact, indubitable, structured, tangible, nonambiguous, perspicuous, appreciable, self-explanatory, accessible, indisputable, visible, blatant, strong, intelligible.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    ambidextrous, bivalent, determinate, double, precise, right-handed, single, single-barreled, single-barrelled, two-handed, univalent.

Homophones for Ambiguous:

• anemopsis, amphioxus, ambush, amoebous, ambagious, amebiosis, anaphasic, amebous, amoebiosis, Ambages, amoebic, anabiosis, anaphase, anemone fish, ambage, anubis, amebiasis, amoebiasis, amebic, Anabas, amphibious.