equivocal
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adjective
ambiguous, ambiguus, ambivalent, amphibological, amphibolous, anceps, bewildering, cloudy, confusing, controversial, debatable, deceptive, dim, disputable, doubtful, dubious, dubius, enigmatic, enigmatical, equivocating, equivocatory, hard to understand, hazy, imperspicuous, imprecise, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, misleading, moot, nebulous, obscure, of doubtful meaning, of uncertain significance, open, open to question, perplexing, possessing double meaning, prevaricating, puzzling, questionable, recondite, shadowy, uncertain, unclarified, unclear, undecided, undefined, undetermined, unexplained, unintelligible, unplain, unresolved, unsolved, unsure, untransparent, vague, veiled
foreign phrases:
- Verba aequivoca, ac in dubio sensu postta, intelliguntur dlgniori et potentiori sensu. — Equivocal words and those which are used in a doubtful sense are to be understood in their more worthy and effective sense.
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index
aleatory (uncertain), ambiguous, conditional, disputable, doubtful, dubious, elusive, hesitant, impalpable, indefinite, indeterminate, oblique (evasive), precarious, problematic, provisional, suspicious (questionable), uncertain (questionable), unclear, vague
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006