1 that can be understood in more than one way; having different meanings:
an ambiguous word / term / statement * Her account was deliberately ambiguous.
2 not clearly stated or defined:
His role has always been ambiguous.
OPPUNAMBIGUOUS
ambiguously adverb:
an ambiguously worded agreement
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