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What does ambiguous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word ambiguous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Open to multiple interpretations.
  2. Vague and unclear.
  3. (obsolete, of persons) Hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides.
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For the record, I say to the House this law is ambiguous in terms of its interpretation.
However, Sutley has created a platform wherein his actors can create fully realized and rounded yet ambiguous characters.
But in the following passage the syntax is such that the referent of the word lap is ambiguous.
The judgment was ambiguous over the adjoining 1.8 square mile plot, opening the way for both sides to claim it.
Mr Sumption says, if necessary, that in the present case the phraseology is both obscure and ambiguous.
In the UK, although the legal situation is somewhat ambiguous, it appears that all forms of aconite are effectively banned for internal use.

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