equivocal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++e·quiv·o·cal /ɪˈkwɪvəkəl/ adjective 1 CLEAR/EASY TO UNDERSTANDif you are equivocal, you are deliberately unclear in the way that you give information or your opinion 〔所给的信息或意见〕模棱两可的，含糊的 SYN ambiguous His answer was equivocal. 他的回答模棱两可。 She was rather equivocal about her work. 她谈到她的工作时有点含糊其词。2 CLEAR/EASY TO UNDERSTANDinformation that is equivocal is difficult to understand or explain because it contains different parts which suggest that different things are true 〔信息〕难以理解的，难以解释的 The results of the police enquiry were equivocal. 警方的调查结果令人费解。
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equivocal• But he also comments that the welfare analysis of restraints is quite equivocal.• But the commission did clarify Gloucester's position in one area of the north where it had previously been somewhat equivocal.• Her beauty, thought Jurnet, was, like everything else about Feldon St Awdry, equivocal.• The research which has been conducted on their parenting and its outcomes for their children has often been flawed and equivocal.• The story, hardly positive, is at best equivocal.• There was nothing equivocal about him.• And the Constitution is neither silent nor equivocal about who shall make laws which the President is to execute.• I could by now admit to myself, and in no equivocal terms, that I was totally in love.Origin equivocal (1500-1600) Late Latin aequivocus, from Latin aequi- (EQUI-) + vox “voice”e·quiv·o·cal adjectiveChineseSyllable
Corpus are are deliberately equivocal, you you if
equivocal
e‧quiv‧o‧cal /ɪˈkwɪvəkəl/
adjective
SYN ambiguous:
His answer was equivocal.
She was rather equivocal about her work.
2. information that is equivocal is difficult to understand or explain because it contains different parts which suggest that different things are true:
The results of the police enquiry were equivocal.
e‧quiv‧o‧cal /ɪˈkwɪvəkəl/
adjective Date: 1500-1600
Language: Late Latin
Origin: aequivocus, from Latin aequi- (EQUI-) + vox __voice__
1. if you are equivocal, you are deliberately unclear in the way that you give information or your opinion Language: Late Latin
Origin: aequivocus, from Latin aequi- (EQUI-) + vox __voice__
SYN ambiguous:
2. information that is equivocal is difficult to understand or explain because it contains different parts which suggest that different things are true: