adjective
- Open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead.
- usage: "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question"
- synonyms: ambiguous
- Open to question. "aliens of equivocal loyalty"; "his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son-Anna Jameson
- Uncertain as a sign or indication.
- usage: "the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal"
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