587 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ʌnklˈi͡ə], [ ʌnklˈi‍ə], [ ʌ_n_k_l_ˈiə]

Similar words: unclear meaning, unclear, confusing, obscure, vagueness, vague statement, unclear meaning of life

Related words: unclear pronunciation, unclear email address, unclear what to do, unclear statement, unclear image

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Similar words for unclear:

• all (adjective)
• ambiguous (adjective)
• baffling (adjective)
• borderline (adjective)
• confused (adjective)
• cryptic (adjective)
• difficult (adjective)
• dim (adjective)
• dubious (adjective)
• equivocal (adjective)
• evasive (adjective)
• faint (adjective)
• foggy (adjective)
• formless (adjective)
• fuzzy (adjective)
• hazy (adjective)
• ill-defined (adjective)
• illegible (adjective)
• inarticulate (adjective)
• inaudible (adjective)
• incomprehensible (adjective)
• indecisive (adjective)
• indefinite (adjective)
• indistinct (adjective)
• inexplicit (adjective)
• misty (adjective)
• muddy (adjective)
• not clear (adjective)
• obscure (adjective)
• on the fence (adjective)
• opaque (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• problematical (adjective)
• puzzling (adjective)
• semitransparent (adjective)
• shaky (adjective)
• silent (adjective)
• suspect (adjective)
• tenebrous (adjective)
• turbid (adjective)
• uncertain (adjective)
• uncomprehensible (adjective)
• undecided (adjective)
• undefined (adjective)
• undetermined (adjective)
• unintelligible (adjective)
• unreadable (adjective)
• unsettled (adjective)
• unsure (adjective)
• vague (adjective)
• woolly (adjective)
• bewildering (noun)
• blurred (noun)
• confusing (noun)
• indecipherable (noun)
• indeterminate (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• perplexing (noun)
• puzzling (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• inarticulate

Paraphrases for unclear

Synonyms for Unclear:

• adj.

  • all (adjective)
  • unclear.
  • ambiguous (adjective)
  • in determinate,
  • in-determinate,
  • un-clearest,
  • un-clear,
  • most multivocal,
  • un clearer,
  • un-clearer,
  • multi-vocal,
  • more multivocal,
  • in conclusive,
  • in-conclusive,
  • most enigmatic,
  • most polysemous,
  • multi vocal,
  • un clearest,
  • more polysemous,
  • un clear.
  • baffling (adjective)
  • difficult understand,
  • un fathomable,
  • be wildering,
  • un-fathomable,
  • mystifying,
  • most bewildering,
  • over one head,
  • more bewildering,
  • over ones head,
  • hard understand,
  • be-wildering.
  • borderline (adjective)
  • unclassifiable.
  • confused (adjective)
  • woolly.
  • cryptic (adjective)
  • more delphian,
  • in explicable,
  • un informative,
  • in-explicable,
  • most uninformative,
  • more uninformative,
  • most delphian,
  • most delphic,
  • un-informative,
  • more delphic.
  • difficult (adjective)
  • involved,
  • tangled,
  • meandering,
  • paradoxical,
  • hard to solve,
  • hard to explain.
  • dim (adjective)
  • dusk,
  • lightless,
  • overcast,
  • mater,
  • poorly lit,
  • unilluminated.
  • dubious (adjective)
  • most unconvinced,
  • touch go,
  • un-likeliest,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • Mootable,
  • un-convinced,
  • un trustworthy,
  • untrustiest,
  • un assured,
  • un likelier,
  • un likeliest,
  • fly by night,
  • un-assured,
  • un trusty,
  • un trustier,
  • more trustless,
  • most unassured,
  • un-trusty,
  • un-trustier,
  • more unconvinced,
  • un-trustiest,
  • un dependable,
  • un likely,
  • untrustier,
  • un convinced,
  • un-reliable,
  • un-likelier,
  • un-dependable,
  • un trustiest,
  • un reliable,
  • far fetched,
  • more unassured,
  • un-likely,
  • most trustless.
  • equivocal (adjective)
  • Amphibological,
  • unexplicit,
  • un-explicit,
  • muzziest,
  • mis leading,
  • most unexplicit,
  • un explicit,
  • more unexplicit,
  • with mixed feelings,
  • muzzy,
  • clear as mud,
  • dis-reputable,
  • mis-leading,
  • more amphibological,
  • muzzier,
  • dis reputable,
  • most amphibological.
  • evasive (adjective)
  • casuistic,
  • casuistical,
  • Elusory,
  • sophistical.
  • faint (adjective)
  • more deadened,
  • most stifled,
  • most bated,
  • more bated,
  • most softened,
  • out earshot,
  • more muttering,
  • low pitched,
  • more stifled,
  • most murmuring,
  • more softened,
  • faroff,
  • more bleached,
  • most muttering,
  • most deadened,
  • lowpitched,
  • most piano,
  • most faltering,
  • more piano,
  • more aside,
  • re-mote,
  • fainter,
  • soothing,
  • most aside,
  • more faltering,
  • most bleached,
  • more murmuring.
  • foggy (adjective)
  • more zero-zero,
  • most pea soupy,
  • more zero zero,
  • most pea-soupy,
  • pea soupy,
  • most peasoupy,
  • zero zero,
  • most zero-zero,
  • more pea soupy,
  • more zerozero,
  • mushy,
  • most zerozero,
  • peasoupy,
  • most zero zero,
  • smaziest,
  • more peasoupy,
  • smazier,
  • zerozero,
  • more pea-soupy.
  • formless (adjective)
  • in coherent,
  • more orderless,
  • un organized,
  • un formed,
  • in-choate,
  • un-organized,
  • in-coherent,
  • blobbier,
  • most orderless,
  • in choate,
  • un-formed,
  • blobbiest.
  • fuzzy (adjective)
  • more unfocused,
  • unfocused,
  • un focused,
  • un-focused,
  • most unfocused.
  • hazy (adjective)
  • more bleared,
  • un sounder,
  • most fuliginous,
  • fumier,
  • un sound,
  • un-sound,
  • more obfuscated,
  • steaming,
  • most bleared,
  • obfuscous,
  • more tranced,
  • un-soundest,
  • fumiest,
  • rimier,
  • most obfuscous,
  • stuporous,
  • rimiest,
  • most tranced,
  • more obfuscous,
  • Tranced,
  • un-sounder,
  • rimy,
  • hazy,
  • most crepuscular,
  • more crepuscular,
  • most obfuscated,
  • more fuliginous.
  • ill-defined (adjective)
  • ill defined,
  • illdefined.
  • illegible (adjective)
  • difficult read,
  • in decipherable,
  • hard make out,
  • in-decipherable,
  • most cacographic,
  • more cacographic.
  • inarticulate (adjective)
  • unvocal,
  • speechless,
  • wordless.
  • inaudible (adjective)
  • more unhearable,
  • non vocal,
  • un hearable,
  • un communicative,
  • most nonvocal,
  • un-hearable,
  • most unhearable,
  • in audible,
  • non-vocal,
  • more nonvocal,
  • un-communicative,
  • in-audible.
  • incomprehensible (adjective)
  • incognizable,
  • sibylline,
  • beats me,
  • fathomless,
  • beyond comprehension,
  • unknowable,
  • ungraspable,
  • beyond grasp,
  • beyond one's grasp,
  • uncomprehensible.
  • indecisive (adjective)
  • more waffling,
  • most weakkneed,
  • most waffling,
  • more astraddle,
  • hot cold,
  • un stable,
  • more weak-kneed,
  • wishy-washy,
  • more weakkneed,
  • weak-kneed,
  • more weak kneed,
  • wishywashy,
  • weak kneed,
  • hemming hawing,
  • in-decisive,
  • weakkneed,
  • most weak kneed,
  • most astraddle,
  • un-stable,
  • wishy washy,
  • most weak-kneed,
  • un eventful,
  • un stablest,
  • un-eventful,
  • in decisive,
  • un-stabler,
  • un stabler,
  • un-stablest.
  • indefinite (adjective)
  • in-definite,
  • in finite,
  • un-specific,
  • inexact,
  • in-numerable,
  • more unspecific,
  • un known,
  • in exhaustible,
  • more indeterminable,
  • innumerable,
  • most imprecise,
  • most unfixed,
  • un-limited,
  • most indeterminable,
  • in numerable,
  • un fixed,
  • more imprecise,
  • un-known,
  • un specific,
  • more unfixed,
  • in exact,
  • in determinable,
  • un-fixed,
  • in-exhaustible,
  • in definite,
  • in-exact,
  • in-determinable,
  • in-finite,
  • most unspecific.
  • indistinct (adjective)
  • in distinct,
  • in-distinct,
  • in-discernible,
  • out focus,
  • in distinguishable,
  • un-heard,
  • in-conspicuous,
  • unheard,
  • in-distinguishable,
  • in discernible,
  • un heard,
  • in conspicuous.
  • inexplicit (adjective)
  • in explicit,
  • in-explicit.
  • misty (adjective)
  • mis-tier,
  • misty,
  • more enveloped,
  • most shrouded,
  • most enveloped,
  • mis tier,
  • more shrouded.
  • muddy (adjective)
  • be-spattered,
  • un clean,
  • un cleanest,
  • most bemired,
  • most subfuse,
  • more subfuse,
  • un-cleaner,
  • more caked,
  • most bespattered,
  • sodden,
  • more bemired,
  • gunkiest,
  • mucky,
  • sub fuse,
  • gunkier,
  • un-cleanest,
  • be-mired,
  • sub-fuse,
  • most caked,
  • more bespattered,
  • soiled,
  • un cleaner,
  • be mired,
  • be spattered.
  • not clear (adjective)
  • cloudy,
  • blurry,
  • fuzzy,
  • intangible,
  • elusive.
  • obscure (adjective)
  • in credible,
  • un accountable,
  • farout,
  • in-credible,
  • un-believable,
  • un believable,
  • in soluble,
  • in-soluble.
  • on the fence (adjective)
  • betwixt and between,
  • in the middle,
  • running hot and cold,
  • not definite,
  • not sure.
  • opaque (adjective)
  • dark,
  • opaque,
  • impenetrable,
  • murky,
  • Nubilous,
  • Imperceptive.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • indecisive,
  • cryptic,
  • nebulous,
  • imprecise,
  • fogged in,
  • wimpy,
  • Fluctuant,
  • subfuse,
  • rootless,
  • Doubtable,
  • unconvinced,
  • problematical,
  • pendent,
  • out of focus,
  • sedimentary,
  • dewiest,
  • undecipherable,
  • ceiling zero,
  • in question,
  • tenebrous,
  • inexplicit,
  • dewier,
  • uncertain,
  • out-standing,
  • Shrouded,
  • beyond one,
  • indeterminable,
  • hard to understand,
  • Nonvocal,
  • Cacographic,
  • illegible,
  • unrecognizable,
  • inarticulate,
  • turbid,
  • undefined,
  • vague,
  • formless,
  • unsure,
  • incomprehensible,
  • out of earshot,
  • astraddle,
  • dithering,
  • ill-defined,
  • unintelligible,
  • Caked,
  • suspect,
  • indistinct,
  • clear as dishwater,
  • foggy,
  • untrusty,
  • undetermined,
  • muddy,
  • difficult,
  • Fuliginous,
  • boggy,
  • equivocal,
  • socked in,
  • smazy,
  • crepuscular,
  • bleary,
  • Orderless,
  • indefinite,
  • unfixed,
  • Fumy,
  • GUNKY,
  • of two minds,
  • evasive,
  • clouded,
  • bespattered,
  • unconfident,
  • boggier,
  • not talkative,
  • unhearable,
  • enigmatical,
  • ambiguous,
  • in a quandary,
  • zero-zero,
  • difficult to read,
  • closed in,
  • borderline,
  • in doubt,
  • hard to make out,
  • dubious,
  • far off,
  • unreadable,
  • unassured,
  • unspecific,
  • hot and cold,
  • boggiest,
  • difficult to understand,
  • touch and go,
  • pea-soupy,
  • hemming and hawing,
  • Multivocal,
  • polysemous,
  • baffling,
  • silent,
  • faint,
  • dewy,
  • Trustless,
  • on the fence,
  • over head,
  • uninformative,
  • unsettled,
  • undecided,
  • blobby.
  • problematical (adjective)
  • at issue.
  • puzzling (adjective)
  • sur prising,
  • sur-prising.
  • semitransparent (adjective)
  • gauzy,
  • veiled,
  • diaphanous,
  • semi-opalescent,
  • milky,
  • limpid,
  • filmy,
  • semitransparent,
  • semi-opaque.
  • shaky (adjective)
  • shaky,
  • unsupported,
  • not reliable,
  • not dependable.
  • silent (adjective)
  • Inconversable,
  • dummied up,
  • iced,
  • unspeaking,
  • Husher,
  • buttoned up,
  • clammed up,
  • struck dumb,
  • closed up,
  • Silentious,
  • inaudible.
  • suspect (adjective)
  • most doubtable,
  • suspected,
  • more doubtable.
  • tenebrous (adjective)
  • most unlit,
  • unlit,
  • more unlit.
  • turbid (adjective)
  • more polluted,
  • more sedimentary,
  • most sedimentary,
  • most polluted.
  • uncertain (adjective)
  • hanging by a thread,
  • unconfirmed,
  • on thin ice,
  • hanging by thread,
  • up for grabs.
  • uncomprehensible (adjective)
  • un comprehensible,
  • un-comprehensible.
  • undecided (adjective)
  • un decided,
  • more dithering,
  • un finished,
  • more pendent,
  • un-finished,
  • most dithering,
  • un-decided.
  • undefined (adjective)
  • un defined,
  • un-defined.
  • undetermined (adjective)
  • unproven.
  • unintelligible (adjective)
  • enigmatic,
  • mysterious.
  • unreadable (adjective)
  • un readable,
  • un-readable,
  • most scribbled,
  • more scribbled.
  • unsettled (adjective)
  • out standing,
  • un settled,
  • in arrears,
  • un-paid,
  • over-due,
  • over due,
  • unpaid,
  • un paid,
  • un-settled.
  • unsure (adjective)
  • dis trustful,
  • dis-trustful,
  • un-sure,
  • in quandary,
  • more rootless,
  • un confident,
  • wimpiest,
  • most unconfident,
  • more unconfident,
  • mis trustful,
  • un-confident,
  • most rootless,
  • more fluctuant,
  • most fluctuant,
  • un sure,
  • mis-trustful.
  • vague (adjective)
  • more generalized,
  • unspecified,
  • most generalized,
  • mis-understood,
  • un-specified,
  • mis understood,
  • un specified.
  • woolly (adjective)
  • dis organized,
  • dis-organized.

• n.

  •
  • questionable,
  • doubtful,
  • problematic.
  •
  • blear,
  • dim.
  • bewildering (noun)
  • bewildering.
  • blurred (noun)
  • blurred.
  • confusing (noun)
  • confusing.
  • indecipherable (noun)
  • indecipherable.
  • indeterminate (noun)
  • indeterminate.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • characteristic.
  • perplexing (noun)
  • perplexing.
  • puzzling (noun)
  • puzzling.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • obscure.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • chancy,
  • indirectly,
  • dubitable,
  • subliminal,
  • undistinct,
  • unobtrusive.
  •
  • confused,
  • inconclusive,
  • iffy,
  • inward,
  • shadowy,
  • quietly.
  •
  • discreet,
  • underlying.
  •
  • subtle.
  • inarticulate
  • incoherent.

Paraphrases for Unclear:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    blurred, blurry, nebulous, vague.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    arcane, clear-cut, dark, difficult, diffuse, diffused, dubious, elusive, grainy, hazy, inaccurate, inconclusive, indefinite, indeterminate, insecure, misleading, obvious, questionable, straightforward, unambiguous, unaware, uncertainty, undetermined, unequivocal, unexplained, unfamiliar, unidentified, unknown, unpredictable, unreliable, unresolved, unsettled, unspecified, woolly, unaccounted, crystal-clear, non-specific, non-transparent.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    confused, confusing, doubtful, equivocal, evident, fuzzy, ill-defined, murky, mysterious, opaque, sketchy, uncertain, undefined, unspecific, unsure, Untransparent.