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What is another word for equivocal?

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Adjective

Having a covert or obscure meaning

Having mixed feelings or emotions

Tending to raise doubts or questions

Untrue or hard to believe, typically made up

Of doubtful authenticity or lacking authority

Not complete or absolute

Prone to speaking evasively or indirectly

Deviating from what is considered normal

Characterized by a lack of sincerity

Reluctant to give information owing to caution or suspicion

(rare) A word or expression capable of different meanings

Fickle, dual-faced individual displaying ambiguity and duplicity, akin to a mercurial Proteus

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Adjective

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Having a covert or obscure meaning

woolly^UK

wooly^US

generalized^US

gray^US

grey^UK

generalised^UK

intentionally misleading

Greek

scrambled

gauzy

blurred round the edges

difficult to understand

impossible to understand

neither fish nor fowl

neither one thing nor the other

thought-provoking

full of twists and turns

not easily understood

too hard to understand

double Dutch

too difficult to understand

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“Well, that sounds like a rather equivocal statement which I for one, and I'm sure many others in the community, are not pleased to hear.”

Adjective

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Having mixed feelings or emotions

on the horns of a dilemma

skeptical^US

sceptical^UK

having opposing views

having clashing views

unsavory^US

unsavoury^UK

having conflicting views

having contradictory views

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“As he probed the moral problems of coercion, he began to be reassured that he was not alone in feeling equivocal about the problem of power.”

Adjective

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Tending to raise doubts or questions

in a state of uncertainty

phony^US

potentially dangerous

phoney^UK

flakey^US

flaky^UK

between sixes and sevens

hard to believe

at issue

between rock and hard place

not backed up by evidence

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“Giorgio's claims that humanity has its origins in ancient aliens is certainly equivocal.”

Adjective

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Untrue or hard to believe, typically made up

beyond the bounds of possibility

labored^US

laboured^UK

flakey^US

flaky^UK

not in the least likely

not able to hold water

phoney^UK

phony^US

never to be forgotten

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Adjective

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Of doubtful authenticity or lacking authority

Adjective

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Not complete or absolute

with conditions attached

with reservations

with strings attached

granted on certain terms

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Adjective

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Prone to speaking evasively or indirectly

Adjective

Deviating from what is considered normal

flaky^UK

flakey^US

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Adjective

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Characterized by a lack of sincerity

phony^US

phoney^UK

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Adjective

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Reluctant to give information owing to caution or suspicion

keeping on one's toes

handling with kid gloves

sceptical^UK

skeptical^US

keeping a weather eye on

all ears

walking on egg shells

playing your cards close to your chest

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Noun

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(rare) A word or expression capable of different meanings

“In the title piece, readers are thrown from one equivocal to the next.”

Noun

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Fickle, dual-faced individual displaying ambiguity and duplicity, akin to a mercurial Proteus

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