Crossword-Solution: EQUIVOCAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Equivocal | a. | (Literally, called equally one thing or the other; hence:) Having two significations equally applicable; capable of double interpretation; of doubtful meaning; ambiguous; uncertain; as, equivocal words; an equivocal sentence. |
| Equivocal | a. | Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected; as, his actions are equivocal. |
| Equivocal | a. | Uncertain, as an indication or sign; doubtful. |
| Equivocal | n. | A word or expression capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term; an equivoque. |
We have 40 clues for the answer “EQUIVOCAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| uncertain as a sign or indication | 1 answer |
| or of uncertain nature or significance | 1 answer |
| UNCERTAIN significance (pert. to) | 1 answer |
| UNCERTAIN nature (pert. to) | 1 answer |
| Capable of two interpretations | 1 answer |
| Epicene | 6 answers |
| ALLUSIVE | 10 answers |
| impugnable | 10 answers |
| doubtable | 11 answers |
| Wishy-washy | 14 answers |
| unforeseeable | 16 answers |
| imperspicuous | 23 answers |
| Illusive | 26 answers |
| apocryphal | 26 answers |
| Fishy? | 34 answers |
| Imprecise | 43 answers |
| Suspect | 46 answers |
| offhandedly | 55 answers |
| Indirect | 57 answers |
| dubitable | 68 answers |
| Ironic | 69 answers |
| Impenetrable | 70 answers |
| intricate | 71 answers |
| perplexing | 72 answers |
| transient | 72 answers |
| disbelieving | 72 answers |
| Powerless | 72 answers |
| Preoccupied | 74 answers |
| Volatile | 76 answers |
| Vagrant | 76 answers |
| Off-hand | 77 answers |
| Questionable | 82 answers |
| complicated | 83 answers |
| ambiguous | 84 answers |
| puzzling | 85 answers |
| Mysterious | 87 answers |
| Inadequate | 89 answers |
| Double | 90 answers |
| Unclear | 92 answers |
| unrestrained | 93 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EQUIVOCAL (5)
San—cta Mari-i-i-a, wailed Raoul from the organ loft; O—ra pro no-o-bis! And it did not occur to Emil that any one had ever reasoned thus before, that music had ever before given a man this equivocal revelation.
But there was less equivocal testimony, which the credulity of the assembly, or of the greater part, greedily swallowed, however incredible.
Lucretius' blind Divinity certainly merited, and probably got, as much self-sacrifice as this of the Sufi; and the burden of Omar's Song--if not "Let us eat"--is assuredly--"Let us drink, for To-morrow we die!" And if Hafiz meant quite otherwise by a similar language, he surely miscalculated when he devoted his Life and Genius to so equivocal a Psalmody as, from his Day to this, has been said and sung by any rather than spiritual Worshippers.
You alone, sir, in spite of the disfavor which I showed for your economical predecessors in too severe a criticism of them,--you alone have judged me justly; and although I cannot accept, at least literally, your first judgment, yet it is to you alone that I appeal from a decision too equivocal to be regarded as final.
Lovell raises such resentment in the reader; her motives are too flimsy, her ways are too equivocal, for the weight and strength of her surroundings.
Quotes with EQUIVOCAL (3)
Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivocal either, since they are expressing themselves in their effects. We could call them analogical. In language too all universal terms presuppose the non-univocal analogical use of the term *being*.
A year ago, I was at a dinner in Amsterdam when the question came up of whether each of us loved his or her country. The German shuddered, the Dutch were equivocal, the Brit said he was "comfortable" with Britain, the expatriate American said no. And I said yes. Driving across the arid lands, the red lands, I wondered what it was I loved. the places, the sagebrush basins, the rivers digging themselves deep canyons through arid lands, the incomparable cloud formations of summe…
We live in an age of equivocal competency: if you want, you can be a competent dictator, a competent self-promoter, a competent terrorist. Just because you can do something well does not mean you should be doing it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1992–2008).