All 13 Uses
ambiguous
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Ancillary Justice
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- I made an ambiguous gesture.†
p. 86.5
- "Of course not," said Lieutenant Issaaia, malice concealed in the ambiguity of her words.†
p. 180.9ambiguity = lack of clarity -- unclear because there could be two or more interpretations
- I felt something like nausea, beginning to realize what must have happened, but having no accessible memory of it to confirm my suspicions, to make the matter clear and unambiguous to me.†
p. 203.9unambiguous = clear (not open to multiple interpretations)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unambiguous means not and reverses the meaning of ambiguous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- No longer sufficiently unambiguous.†
p. 245.5
- I made a gesture of ambiguity.†
p. 279.2ambiguity = lack of clarity -- unclear because there could be two or more interpretations
- "My response is ambiguous, I know," I said, making that placatory gesture Inspector Supervisor Skaaiat had already used.†
p. 279.7 *
- I saw them all, suddenly, for just a moment, through nonRadchaai eyes, an eddying crowd of unnervingly ambiguously gendered people.†
p. 283.5
- She made an ambiguous gesture.†
p. 304.1
- Though such free speaking might only mean the Lord of the Radch preferred to let her enemies identify themselves clearly and unambiguously.†
p. 319.4unambiguously = in a manner that is clear (not open to multiple interpretations)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unambiguously means not and reverses the meaning of ambiguously. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- The Security officer gestured ambiguity.†
p. 327.7ambiguity = lack of clarity -- unclear because there could be two or more interpretations
- And Justice was about to land before me, clear and unambiguous.†
p. 328.3unambiguous = clear (not open to multiple interpretations)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unambiguous means not and reverses the meaning of ambiguous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- The Security officer made that ambiguous gesture again, but said nothing.†
p. 329.6
- She made a gesture of ambiguity.†
p. 378.9ambiguity = lack of clarity -- unclear because there could be two or more interpretations
Definitions:
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(1)
(ambiguous) unclear -- because there could be two or more interpretations
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, ambiguous can mean uncertain or doubtful -- as in the expression "an ambiguous smile".