What is another word for equivocal?
Pronunciation:
[ ɪkwˈɪvəkə͡l], [ ɪkwˈɪvəkəl], [ ɪ_k_w_ˈɪ_v_ə_k_əl]
Related words: ambivalence, hesitant, uncertain, hesitant to commit, indecisive, equivocal responses, equivocally
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Similar words for equivocal:
- all (adjective)
- ambiguous (adjective)
- ambivalent (adjective)
- apocryphal (adjective)
- backhanded (adjective)
- borderline (adjective)
- cryptic (adjective)
- doubtful (adjective)
- doubtful, uncertain (adjective)
- dubious (adjective)
- elusive (adjective)
- embarrassing (adjective)
- enigmatic/enigmatical (adjective)
- equivocal (adjective)
- fishy (adjective)
- hypothetical (adjective)
- indefinite (adjective)
- inexplicit (adjective)
- mealy-mouthed (adjective)
- mysterious (adjective)
- mystifying (adjective)
- noncommittal (adjective)
- obscured (adjective)
- opaque (adjective)
- open (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- precarious (adjective)
- qualified (adjective)
- questionable (adjective)
- suspicious (adjective)
- tenebrous (adjective)
- ulterior (adjective)
- unapt (adjective)
- undecided (adjective)
- unintelligible (adjective)
- vague (adjective)
- ambiguous (noun)
- ambivalent (noun)
- double (noun)
- equivocal (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- awkward
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Equivocal:
adj.
• all (adjective) • 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.
- un-resolved,
- un resolved,
- un sure,
- most fluctuating,
- un-sure,
- most opposed,
- most clashing,
- more clashing,
- more fluctuating.
- 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.
- 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.
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- muzzy,
- clear as mud,
- misleading,
- muddled,
- Amphibological,
- evasive,
- disreputable,
- unexplicit,
- with mixed feelings,
- fuzzy,
- oblique.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- in scrutable,
- in-decipherable,
- more stickling,
- most sphinxlike,
- in-scrutable,
- more sphinxlike,
- most enigmatic,
- teasing,
- sibylline,
- most stickling,
- most stumping,
- in decipherable,
- more stumping.
- 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.
- 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.
- in-sincere,
- in sincerest,
- in sincere,
- mealy mouthed,
- mealymouthed,
- dis-ingenuous,
- hypo critical,
- in-sincerer,
- dis ingenuous,
- in-sincerest,
- in sincerer.
- 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.
- clammed up,
- buttoned up,
- unrevealing,
- non-committal,
- Middle-ground,
- on-the-fence,
- even-steven,
- even steven.
- hard to believe,
- unfixed,
- hanging by thread,
- in doubt,
- necromantic,
- vague,
- Doubtable,
- hemming and hawing,
- problematical,
- under examination,
- under advisement,
- enigmatical,
- unknowable,
- open to question,
- untrusty,
- Conjecturable,
- imprecise,
- questionable,
- touch and go,
- won't wash,
- Multivocal,
- in clouds,
- without belief,
- pendent,
- Discommodious,
- Stickling,
- undetermined,
- borderline,
- astrological,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- not kosher,
- unspecific,
- open,
- inexplicit,
- in a quandary,
- mysterious,
- on thin ice,
- out on limb,
- clouded,
- apocryphal,
- Elusory,
- contestable,
- suspicious,
- ambiguous,
- Unapt,
- refutable,
- backhanded,
- up for grabs,
- unintelligible,
- of two minds,
- unconvinced,
- elusive,
- indefinite,
- ulterior,
- clear as dishwater,
- Trustless,
- running hot and cold,
- tenebrous,
- difficult to catch,
- fishy,
- paradoxical,
- out of line,
- indeterminable,
- sphinxlike,
- unassured,
- polysemous,
- undecided,
- qualified,
- not following,
- uninformative,
- enigmatic,
- in dilemma,
- alchemistic,
- noncommittal,
- rings untrue,
- precarious,
- Controvertible,
- betwixt and between,
- open to doubt,
- dithering,
- unproven,
- cryptic.
- 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.
- un proven,
- un-proven,
- more unproven,
- most unproven,
- most paradoxical,
- more controvertible,
- most controvertible,
- more paradoxical,
- open doubt,
- hard believe.
- un-common,
- un usual,
- un commoner,
- wont wash,
- out line,
- re-aching,
- un common,
- un-commoner,
- re aching,
- un-usual,
- un commonest.
- 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.
n.
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- ill-defined,
- ambiguity,
- hollow.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
• awkward • Other relevant words (noun):- 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.
How to use "Equivocal" in context?
What is equivocal?
Equivocal can be defined as meaning unsure or uncertain. It is most often used to describe statements or words that cannot be clearly interpreted. Equivocal statements can be difficult to determine the intent behind them.
Paraphrases for Equivocal:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
ambiguous, questionable, vague.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
unequivocal.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
clear, confusing, doubtful, mixed, unambiguous.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
ambivalent, dubious, misleading, uncertain, unclear, weasel.
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Adjective
Homophones for Equivocal:
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- Synonyms:
- bring to a screeching halt.