ambiguously

Definitions

In a way that is open to more than one interpretation; equivocally.

In a manner that is unclear, inexact, or lacking a definite meaning.

Examples

The instructions were written so ambiguously that none of the students knew how to begin the assignment.

He smiled ambiguously, leaving us to wonder whether he was pleased or merely amused by our suggestion.

Synonyms

vaguely obscurely equivocally nebulously indistinctly uncertainly murkily

Antonyms

clearly precisely unambiguously definitely explicitly distinctly plainly