AMBIGUOUSLY Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

ambiguously

adverb

Definition of ambiguously

as in equivocally

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Recent Examples of ambiguously Certain apparently magical happenings in the novel are treated ambiguously, but either way, the titular character’s study of Buddhist practices is an asset in his journey. — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 7 July 2026 Moore hated White’s book Stuart Little, in which a mouse is born to a human woman, and which ends abruptly and ambiguously, with the little mouse’s future very much up to the reader. — Mac Barnett, Longreads, 5 May 2026 Hacks star Jean Smart carried an ambiguously political message with her throughout the evening. — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026 Jamian Juliano-Villani’s friezelike painting Women, 2024, offers a surreptitious turn on Marcel Duchamp and Eadweard Muybridge by featuring an ostensibly female figure with too many (and ambiguously gendered) appendages. — Tim Grifﬁn, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025 Linda is tasked with caring for her ambiguously ill child while her husband is out of town for work; their apartment ceiling collapses, forcing her and her daughter into a motel. — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025

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Use our refresher on indirect grilling, then discover how to grill indirectly using gas as your fuel.

— Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2026
Weist has repeatedly gravitated toward systems that most people encounter only indirectly, transforming her research processes into subjects of aesthetic and political investigation.

— Rhoda Feng, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026

Definition of indirectly

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That’s the word that NPR Editor in Chief Thomas Evans used to describe why, today, the outlet erroneously published a report by the veteran Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg that Justice Samuel Alito had retired.

— Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 June 2026
Verstappen's crash at the final pair of corners brought out yellow flags, which Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli erroneously thought were double-waved yellow flags and aborted his lap.

— Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026

Definition of erroneously

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Trump has repeatedly made derogatory and racist comments about immigrants, including calling them criminals and falsely saying that Haitians eat cats and dogs.

— Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026
In May, a former federal agent was arrested and charged with multiple counts of assault and falsely reporting a crime after making false statements under oath regarding the nonfatal shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis in January.

— Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 8 July 2026

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