amphibolous
21mysterious — Synonyms and related words: able, abstruse, ambiguous, amphibological, amphibolous, anagogic, arcane, awe inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, baffling, beclouded, bewildering, bizarre, blind, bothering, buried, cabalic, cabalistic, censored,… …
22uncertain — Synonyms and related words: Pyrrhonic, adrift, afloat, agnostic, alternating, ambiguous, ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphous, amphibological, amphibolous, at a loss, at loose ends, blear, bleared, bleary, blurred, blurry, broken, capricious,… …
23Equivocalness — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Having a double sense. < N PARAG:Equivocalness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 equivocalness equivocalness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 double meaning double meaning &c. 516 Sgm: N 1 ambiguity ambiguity double entente double entendre… …
24ambiguity — Something open to two or more possible meanings; amphibolous. Alternating figures and other optical illusions may be helpful visual examples. In visual art, as in expository writing, ambiguity is usually something to be avoided, because it… …
25cryptic — Having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meaning; mysterious; often marked by an often perplexing brevity. Cryptic sometimes carries the deeper sense of secrecy or the occult, and is often sensed in Dada and in surrealist works. The… …
26irony — , ironic Irony is a form of expression in which the real meaning is concealed or contradicted by the words or images used a meaning which either markedly contrasts or is entirely opposite to that which appears to be presented. It is a trope …
27ambiguous — adj 1. equivocal, Logic. amphibolous, paradoxical, duplicitous; ironic, two edged, ambivalent, multi leveled, figurative, suggestive, symbolic; misleading, roundabout, circuitous, ambagious, hedging, weasel worded. 2. doubtful, dubious, left… …
28equivocal — adj 1. ambiguous, amphibolic, Logic. amphibolous, paradoxical, duplicitous; ambivalent, two edged, multi leveled, changing, uncertain, wishy washy; misleading, roundabout, circuitous, ambagious, hedging, weasel worded, double tongued; doubtful,… …
29questionable — adj 1. debatable, controversial, polemical, in dispute; subject to discussion, moot, open to question, in question, problematic, problematical, hard to believe, open to doubt, doubtful, dubious, dubitable; uncertain, unsure, unsettled, undecided …
30quibbling — adj 1. carping, caviling, pettifogging, hairsplitting, niggling, Inf. nitpicking; Jesuitical, sophistical, casuistic, Logic. paralogistic; critical, hypercritical, captious, censorious, overcritical, faultfinding. 2. prevaricative, prevaricatory …
