ambiguous

In a sentence

Six example sentences with ambiguous, each labelled with its topic.

• The last line is deliberately ambiguous, and two generations of critics still argue about who is speaking.

  Literature

• The photograph is ambiguous: the shadow could belong to the man on the left or to the lamppost.

  Photography

• The quest text was ambiguous enough that half the players dug at the cliff and half searched the lake.

  Gaming

• Participants saw an ambiguous face, and the anxious volunteers read it as angry far more often than the rest.

  Psychology

• The clause was ambiguous about who owned the drawings, and the judge read it against the party that wrote it.

  Law

• The minister gave an ambiguous answer, and both supporters and critics claimed it as a promise made to them.

  Politics

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains ambiguous. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• adjusted
• finite
• stability
• mechanism
• coordinate
• dynamic
• previously
• imposing
• functional
• conversely
• somewhat
• implement