equivocal

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e·quiv·o·cal /ɪˈkwɪvəkəl/ adjectiveadj

1 CLEAR/EASY TO UNDERSTANDif you are equivocal, you are deliberately unclear in the way that you give information or your opinion 〔所給的信息或意見〕模棱兩可的，含糊的 SYN ambiguous

His answer was equivocal.

他的回答模棱兩可。

She was rather equivocal about her work.

她談到她的工作時有點含糊其詞。

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〕難以理解的，難以解釋的

The results of the police enquiry were equivocal.

警方的調查結果令人費解。

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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 adjectiveadj

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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 19210 COCA: 20444

equivocal

Not having a clear meaning: ambiguity, ambiguous, meaningless...

Not definite or based on fact: apparently, supposed, alleged...

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