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equivocal
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    I am comforted by his unequivocal reputation.†
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    an unequivocal success†
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    [Laughing equivocally.]  (source)
    equivocally = with meaning that is not clear
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    I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched.  (source)
    equivocal = of doubtful significance (not clearly and strongly felt in the normal sense)
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    ...leaving me with no unequivocal answers about cheerleaders and their diet aids or...  (source)
    unequivocal = unmistakably clear
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unequivocal means not and reverses the meaning of equivocal. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    But the cause of death--unequivocally--was drowning.  (source)
    unequivocally = clearly and unmistakably
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unequivocally means not and reverses the meaning of equivocally. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Questions which Clyde could do no more than ignore, or if not, answer as equivocally or evasively or indifferently as possible.†  (source)
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    A day or two afterwards, chancing in the evening promenade on a gun deck to pass Billy, he offered a flying word of good-fellowship, as it were, which by its unexpectedness, and equivocalness under the circumstances so embarrassed Billy that he knew not how to respond to it, and let it go unnoticed.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    It's difficult for me to believe I have power over him, of any sort, but I do; although it's of an equivocal kind.†  (source)
    equivocal = unclear in meaning
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    The sergeant demanded attention with an unequivocal gesture.†  (source)
    unequivocal = unmistakably clear in meaning
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    He was the one person I could count on, unequivocally, to say exactly what he meant, no hedging around.  (source)
    unequivocally = without ambiguity (in a completely clear manner)
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    What he meant by "everything would be fine" was not exactly clear— it became quite evident that his condition tended to create ambiguities, and he expressed himself equivocally more than once, seemed both to know and not to know, and at one point, apparently overcome by a wave of approaching devastation, he shook his head almost in remorse and declared that he had never felt this bad, never in all his life.†  (source)
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    His answers were restrained and equivocal; he could not and would not give a diagnosis on a patient he had never seen — but yes, this was possible and that not unheard of, but of course, nothing could be considered remotely material without physical and psychiatric examination.†  (source)
    equivocal = unclear in meaning
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