Crossword-Solution: AMBIGUITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Ambiguity | n. | The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. |
We have 72 clues for the answer “AMBIGUITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Aspect of innuendo | 1 answer |
| Double talker's aim | 1 answer |
| Quality of having more than one possible meaning | 1 answer |
| Quality of oracular answers, often | 1 answer |
| Equivoque | 4 answers |
| double meaning | 4 answers |
| unintelligibility | 7 answers |
| imperspicuity | 7 answers |
| ambivalence | 8 answers |
| equivocalness | 9 answers |
| Double entendre | 10 answers |
| Pun | 10 answers |
| play on words | 11 answers |
| dubiety | 18 answers |
| doubletalk | 19 answers |
| guesswork | 21 answers |
| irrelevancy | 45 answers |
| dissimilitude | 45 answers |
| unlikeness | 46 answers |
| imparity | 46 answers |
| antilogy | 46 answers |
| ramification | 47 answers |
| oxymoron | 48 answers |
| discordance | 48 answers |
| disproportion | 49 answers |
| anachronism | 50 answers |
| Imbalance | 51 answers |
| Incompatibility | 53 answers |
| contradiction | 54 answers |
| changeableness | 57 answers |
| dissimilarity | 59 answers |
| complexity | 62 answers |
| contrariety | 64 answers |
| Incongruity | 64 answers |
| Disparity | 66 answers |
| mutation | 67 answers |
| anomaly | 67 answers |
| Inadequacy | 69 answers |
| Witticism | 69 answers |
| insufficiency | 70 answers |
| Unevenness | 70 answers |
| Opacity | 71 answers |
| concealment | 71 answers |
| Obscurity | 72 answers |
| Haze | 73 answers |
| Mist | 74 answers |
| perplexity | 74 answers |
| Doubt | 74 answers |
| Non-plus? | 74 answers |
| Offshoot | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AMBIGUITY (5)
There seems to be a meta-rule behind these nonstandard hackerisms to the effect that precision of expression is more important than conformance to traditional rules; where the latter create ambiguity or lose information they can be discarded without a second thought.
The vindictive bitterness, the marked caution, the studied reverse, and the cumbrous ambiguity, practiced by our white folks, when alluding to this subject, was now fully explained.
The form is or was building, in this passive signification, is idiomatic, and, if free from ambiguity, is commonly preferable to the modern is or was being built.
Whatever else the _Daily Intelligencer_ had learned in the East, it had not acquired the art of diplomatic ambiguity.
Half the room was between them, but they seemed to stare close at each other now that the veils of reticence and ambiguity had fallen.
Quotes with AMBIGUITY (3)
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
For I am — or I was — one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all — a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, Onion, WP, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2002–2020).