ambiguity
ambiguity is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity. South.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abuse
- accent
- anagram
- antiphrasis
- archaic
- archaism
- argot
- babu
- barbarism
- black
- brogue
- broken
- byword
- call
- cant
- clinch
- coin
- coiner
- colloquial
- colloquialism
- confusion
- corruption
- crabbed
- darkness
- dialect
- dog
- double
- expression
- figure
- flash
- gibberish
- hard
- his
- idiom
- inexactness
- informal
- involution
- involved
- jargon
- kitchen
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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