ambiguous

adjective

1. open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead

- the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates

Similar word(s): ambiguous, double, forked, evasive, indeterminate, equivocal

2. having more than one possible meaning

- ambiguous words

- frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy

Similar word(s): enigmatic, oracular, multivalent, polysemantic, polysemous, uncertain, unclear, ambiguous, equivocal

3. having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns

- an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference

- ambiguous inkblots

Similar word(s): unstructured