Synonyms for Equivocal:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • equivocal.
  •ambiguous (adjective)
  • in-determinate,
  • un clear,
  • multi-vocal,
  • more multivocal,
  • most multivocal,
  • un clearest,
  • in determinate,
  • un-clear,
  • in conclusive,
  • un clearer,
  • more polysemous,
  • multi vocal,
  • un-clearer,
  • most polysemous,
  • un-clearest,
  • in-conclusive.
  •ambivalent (adjective)
  • un-resolved,
  • un resolved,
  • un sure,
  • most fluctuating,
  • un-sure,
  • most opposed,
  • most clashing,
  • more clashing,
  • more fluctuating.
  •apocryphal (adjective)
  • unauthenticated,
  • ungenuine.
  •backhanded (adjective)
  • double-edged,
  • twoedged.
  •borderline (adjective)
  • unclassifiable.
  •cryptic (adjective)
  • un informative,
  • in-explicable,
  • un-informative,
  • more delphic,
  • in comprehensible,
  • more uninformative,
  • in-comprehensible,
  • most uninformative,
  • un fathomable,
  • un-fathomable,
  • most delphian,
  • most delphic,
  • more delphian,
  • in explicable.
  •doubtful (adjective)
  • un stablest,
  • dis concerted,
  • most unconvinced,
  • in securer,
  • more doubtable,
  • far fetched,
  • un stable,
  • un-convinced,
  • dis trustful,
  • in-securest,
  • uneasy,
  • in distinct,
  • in-secure,
  • impugnable,
  • in-distinct,
  • more faltering,
  • un convinced,
  • most impugnable,
  • dis-trustful,
  • more questioning,
  • un-easiest,
  • most baffled,
  • un easy,
  • unconfirmed,
  • most questioning,
  • hazy,
  • un-easier,
  • dis composed,
  • most discomposed,
  • more unconfirmed,
  • in-securer,
  • most unconfirmed,
  • in quandary,
  • more unconvinced,
  • dis-composed,
  • un easiest,
  • dis-reputable,
  • most faltering,
  • un-stablest,
  • un confirmed,
  • more discomposed,
  • questioning,
  • un-confirmed,
  • un-easy,
  • most agnostic,
  • most flustered,
  • in securest,
  • more baffled,
  • in secure,
  • doubting,
  • un easier,
  • un-stabler,
  • more flustered,
  • dis reputable,
  • more impugnable,
  • more agnostic,
  • un-stable,
  • dis-concerted,
  • most doubtable,
  • un stabler.
  •doubtful, uncertain (adjective)
  • indeterminate,
  • indistinct,
  • muzzy,
  • clear as mud,
  • misleading,
  • muddled,
  • Amphibological,
  • evasive,
  • disreputable,
  • unexplicit,
  • with mixed feelings,
  • fuzzy,
  • oblique.
  •dubious (adjective)
  • un-trustier,
  • un-reliable,
  • more trustless,
  • un trusty,
  • un-likely,
  • mis trustful,
  • un likeliest,
  • dis-inclined,
  • fly by night,
  • un-dependable,
  • un-assured,
  • untrustiest,
  • un-likelier,
  • un trustiest,
  • untrustier,
  • touch go,
  • more unassured,
  • un-likeliest,
  • un likelier,
  • un trustier,
  • Mootable,
  • mistrustful,
  • un likely,
  • un dependable,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • un reliable,
  • most trustless,
  • un-trusty,
  • un-trustiest,
  • dis inclined,
  • mis-trustful,
  • most unassured,
  • un trustworthy,
  • un assured.
  •elusive (adjective)
  • most stonewalling,
  • un-specific,
  • in definable,
  • difficult catch,
  • evanescent,
  • mis leading,
  • in-definable,
  • in-substantial,
  • un specific,
  • most illusory,
  • more elusory,
  • mis-leading,
  • fugacious,
  • in tangible,
  • most elusory,
  • more phantom,
  • in-tangible,
  • more unspecific,
  • most phantom,
  • in substantial,
  • more stonewalling,
  • most unspecific.
  •embarrassing (adjective)
  • un seemly,
  • un comfortable,
  • most bewildering,
  • un-propitious,
  • most compromising,
  • in commodious,
  • most distracting,
  • ex asperating,
  • most troubling,
  • be wildering,
  • un seemlier,
  • most rattling,
  • troubling,
  • most exasperating,
  • in-commodious,
  • un-seemly,
  • in convenient,
  • most disconcerting,
  • dis agreeable,
  • up-setting,
  • more disconcerting,
  • dis commodious,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • most discommodious,
  • un propitious,
  • dis-commodious,
  • more rattling,
  • up setting,
  • more exasperating,
  • more compromising,
  • be-wildering,
  • in-opportune,
  • in-convenient,
  • un-seemlier,
  • most discomfiting,
  • most mortifying,
  • more troubling,
  • more discommodious,
  • ex-asperating,
  • more discomfiting,
  • dis concerting,
  • more discommoding,
  • more mortifying,
  • un-comfortable,
  • more distracting,
  • dis-concerting,
  • more bewildering,
  • un seemliest,
  • inconvenient,
  • unpropitious,
  • in opportune,
  • un-seemliest,
  • most discommoding.
  •enigmatic/enigmatical (adjective)
  • in scrutable,
  • in-decipherable,
  • more stickling,
  • most sphinxlike,
  • in-scrutable,
  • more sphinxlike,
  • most enigmatic,
  • teasing,
  • sibylline,
  • most stickling,
  • most stumping,
  • in decipherable,
  • more stumping.
  •equivocal (adjective)
  • double-entendre,
  • uncertain,
  • double entendre.
  •fishy (adjective)
  • funnier.
  •hypothetical (adjective)
  • hypo thetical,
  • more postulated,
  • more contestable,
  • more conjecturable,
  • most stochastic,
  • more pretending,
  • most pretending,
  • more refutable,
  • more stochastic,
  • most contestable,
  • more concocted,
  • putative,
  • most conjecturable,
  • pre tending,
  • most concocted,
  • most refutable,
  • more presupposed,
  • pre supposed,
  • stochastic,
  • Postulated,
  • provisory,
  • hypothetical,
  • hypo-thetical,
  • pre-supposed,
  • most postulated,
  • most presupposed,
  • pre-tending.
  •indefinite (adjective)
  • un-limited,
  • more indeterminable,
  • un defined,
  • most imprecise,
  • un known,
  • in exhaustible,
  • in-numerable,
  • un fixed,
  • more imprecise,
  • in definite,
  • in-exact,
  • un-known,
  • un-defined,
  • in-finite,
  • in exact,
  • ill defined,
  • un-fixed,
  • in-exhaustible,
  • in-determinable,
  • more unfixed,
  • in finite,
  • most unfixed,
  • illdefined,
  • inexact,
  • innumerable,
  • most indeterminable,
  • in-definite,
  • in numerable,
  • in determinable.
  •inexplicit (adjective)
  • in explicit,
  • in-explicit.
  •mealy-mouthed (adjective)
  • in-sincere,
  • in sincerest,
  • in sincere,
  • mealy mouthed,
  • mealymouthed,
  • dis-ingenuous,
  • hypo critical,
  • in-sincerer,
  • dis ingenuous,
  • in-sincerest,
  • in sincerer.
  •mysterious (adjective)
  • in soluble,
  • most astrological,
  • un knowable,
  • un-natural,
  • more alchemistic,
  • more necromantic,
  • un canny,
  • magical,
  • most alchemistic,
  • un-canniest,
  • most unknowable,
  • in-soluble,
  • un-canny,
  • un canniest,
  • most necromantic,
  • more astrological,
  • un-cannier,
  • un-knowable,
  • more transcendental,
  • un cannier,
  • more unknowable.
  •mystifying (adjective)
  • mystifying.
  •noncommittal (adjective)
  • clammed up,
  • buttoned up,
  • unrevealing,
  • non-committal,
  • Middle-ground,
  • on-the-fence,
  • even-steven,
  • even steven.
  •obscured (adjective)
  • more cover,
  • most cover.
  •opaque (adjective)
  • Imperceptive,
  • Nubilous.
  •open (adjective)
  • yet to be decided,
  • up in air,
  • up air,
  • up for discussion,
  • yet be decided,
  • up the air.
  •precarious (adjective)
  • un-safer,
  • most dynamite,
  • un steadiest,
  • pre-carious,
  • more dynamite,
  • un-safest,
  • un-steadiest,
  • un safer,
  • pre carious,
  • un steady,
  • un steadier,
  • un healthy,
  • un-steadier,
  • un safe,
  • un healthier,
  • un-healthy,
  • hanging by a thread,
  • un-safe,
  • out a limb,
  • un-healthiest,
  • un safest,
  • un healthiest,
  • out limb.
  •qualified (adjective)
  • most circumscribed,
  • more circumscribed,
  • pro visional,
  • de finite,
  • de-finite.
  •questionable (adjective)
  • un proven,
  • un-proven,
  • more unproven,
  • most unproven,
  • most paradoxical,
  • more controvertible,
  • most controvertible,
  • more paradoxical,
  • open doubt,
  • hard believe.
  •suspicious (adjective)
  • un-common,
  • un usual,
  • un commoner,
  • wont wash,
  • out line,
  • re-aching,
  • un common,
  • un-commoner,
  • re aching,
  • un-usual,
  • un commonest.
  •tenebrous (adjective)
  • more lightless,
  • more unilluminated,
  • most unilluminated,
  • most unlit,
  • un-illuminated,
  • more unexplicit,
  • unilluminated,
  • duskest,
  • dusker,
  • most unexplicit,
  • unlit,
  • lightless,
  • un illuminated,
  • un-explicit,
  • most lightless,
  • more unlit,
  • un explicit.
  •ulterior (adjective)
  • Undivulged,
  • implied,
  • Shrouded,
  • Obscured.
  •unapt (adjective)
  • un-aptest,
  • un apter,
  • un-apter,
  • un aptest.
  •undecided (adjective)
  • in middle,
  • most waffling,
  • wishywashy,
  • un finished,
  • un committed,
  • more pendent,
  • on fence,
  • un-committed,
  • wishy washy,
  • in the middle,
  • un decided,
  • betwixt between,
  • more waffling,
  • un-decided,
  • running hot cold,
  • un-finished,
  • more dithering,
  • hemming hawing,
  • most dithering.
  •unintelligible (adjective)
  • ungraspable,
  • fathomless,
  • incognizable.
  •vague (adjective)
  • un-specified,
  • mis understood,
  • un specified,
  • more blurred,
  • more generalized,
  • most generalized,
  • mis-understood.

• n.

  •
  • ill-defined,
  • ambiguity,
  • hollow.
  •
  • honest,
  • suspect.
  •ambiguous (noun)
  • puzzling,
  • study at obscure.
  •ambivalent (noun)
  • ambivalent.
  •double (noun)
  • double.
  •equivocal (noun)
  • forked,
  • inconclusive.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • wooly,
  • Two-edged,
  • ironic,
  • null,
  • nonsense,
  • chancy,
  • meaningless,
  • dubitable,
  • unclear,
  • abstruse.
  •
  • iffy,
  • oracular,
  • nebulous,
  • difficult,
  • vaguely,
  • unsure.
  •
  • indecisive,
  • problematic.
  •
  • cloudy,
  • shady.
  •awkward
  • embarrassing.
  •Other relevant words:
  • weak,
  • dusky,
  • devious,
  • ambiguously,
  • pluralistic,
  • heterogeneous,
  • diarrheal,
  • oily,
  • obscene,
  • risque,
  • tergiversating,
  • foreign,
  • Prevaricating,
  • indelicate,
  • conflicting,
  • free,
  • unverifiable,
  • promiscuous,
  • combined,
  • dappled,
  • blurred,
  • compounded,
  • confused,
  • disputable,
  • undefined,
  • self-contradictory,
  • dishonest,
  • loose,
  • confusing,
  • equivocality,
  • deceitful,
  • dazed,
  • duplicitous,
  • intricate,
  • elliptical,
  • agnostic,
  • jumbled,
  • dissembling,
  • bawdy,
  • oxymoronic,
  • in question,
  • cunning,
  • undefinable,
  • dicey,
  • euphemistic,
  • equivocation,
  • delphic,
  • casuistic,
  • Equivoque,
  • bedimmed,
  • impossible,
  • fickle,
  • at issue,
  • fabrication,
  • smoggy,
  • eclectic,
  • antinomic,
  • whimsical,
  • capricious,
  • immodest,
  • bewildering,
  • unfathomable,
  • Equivocatory,
  • joke,
  • varied,
  • dirty,
  • amphibious,
  • multinational,
  • indecorous,
  • cloudlike,
  • Truthless,
  • amalgamated,
  • erratic,
  • weasel-worded,
  • opaque,
  • Amphibolous,
  • uncertainty,
  • queer,
  • circumlocutory,
  • incongruous,
  • Mingled,
  • mendacious,
  • murky,
  • prevarication,
  • strange,
  • unspecified,
  • impenetrable,
  • reticent,
  • many-sided,
  • equivocally,
  • medley,
  • pornographic,
  • shifty,
  • doubt,
  • Contradictable,
  • cagey,
  • mincing,
  • smutty,
  • gross,
  • half-and-half,
  • sceptical,
  • unsteady,
  • nonpayment,
  • improbable,
  • indistinguishable,
  • impure,
  • compound,
  • illogical,
  • insecure,
  • jesuitical,
  • indecent,
  • composite,
  • unaccountable,
  • unfamiliar,
  • debatable,
  • indiscriminate,
  • multifaceted,
  • wavering,
  • non-specific,
  • portmanteau word,
  • sophistical,
  • polite,
  • hypocritical,
  • perplexing,
  • miscellaneous,
  • Perjured,
  • touch-and-go,
  • deniable,
  • ambagious,
  • evasiveness,
  • Indemonstrable,
  • mystic,
  • ribald,
  • conglomerate,
  • unprovable,
  • unctuous,
  • Homonymous,
  • syncretic,
  • changeable,
  • indirect,
  • casuistry,
  • unclean,
  • deep,
  • patchy,
  • pun,
  • mealy-mouthed,
  • inconsistent,
  • fifty-fifty,
  • fallible,
  • waffling,
  • perilous,
  • Forsworn,
  • hesitant,
  • lying,
  • incomprehensible,
  • Equivocating,
  • impeach,
  • baffling,
  • coarse,
  • arcane,
  • confutative,
  • fulsome,
  • tricky,
  • skeptical,
  • zigzag,
  • absurd,
  • untruthful,
  • risky,
  • Unveracious,
  • broad,
  • weasel word,
  • Amphibolic,
  • paronomasia,
  • tergiversation,
  • multiracial,
  • irresolute,
  • artful,
  • evasion,
  • unpredictable,
  • recondite,
  • inseparable,
  • periphrastic,
  • wishy-washy,
  • restricted,
  • polysemantic,
  • scrambled,
  • unpersuaded,
  • left-handed,
  • Equivoke,
  • variable,
  • hedging,
  • complex,
  • unforeseeable,
  • double-tongued,
  • hesitating,
  • apostasy,
  • roundabout,
  • motley,
  • incalculable,
  • blended,
  • distrustful,
  • wordplay,
  • contradictory,
  • reluctant,
  • mixed,
  • slick,
  • shameless,
  • inscrutable,
  • equivocalness.

Paraphrases for Equivocal:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    ambiguous, vague, questionable.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    unequivocal.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    unambiguous, clear, mixed, confusing, doubtful.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    misleading, uncertain, unclear, ambivalent, dubious, weasel.

Antonyms for Equivocal:

• adj.

  • doubtful, uncertain
    unequivocal, plain, sure, determined, unquestionable, obvious, definite, certain, clear.
  • Other antonyms:
    unquestioning, lucid, strong, resolute, understandable, defined, legible, tangible, nonambiguous, comprehensible, Questionless, unquestioned, undoubted, knowable, visible, blatant, unproblematic, hands down, intelligible, perspicuous, exact, self-explanatory, bright, accessible, appreciable, self-evident, firm, fathomable, conclusive.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    determinate, single.

Homophones for Equivocal:

• especially, especial, espousal, equivocally, esophageal.