equivocally
adverb
formaluk/ɪˈkwɪv.ə.kəl.i/us/ɪˈkwɪv.ə.kəl.i/in a way that is notclearandseemsto have twoopposingmeanings, or that isconfusingandableto beunderstoodin two differentways:
含糊地;模棱两可地;有歧义地The newbiographywasreceivedequivocally.新传记的接受度好坏参半。
Asked how manypatientshadfullyrecoveredhe equivocallystated, "None."当被问及有多少患者完全康复时,他模棱两可地说:“没有。”
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equivocal
- Hephrasedhiscommentsso equivocally we weren’tsurehe had made thepointat all.
- Manypeoplesurveyedansweredequivocally.
- There are a fewpossiblepoints, but they areexpressedso equivocally that I would only beguessing.
Difficult to understand
- abstruse
- ambiguity
- ambiguous
- ambiguously
- antinomy
- fathomless
- garble
- get it into your thick headidiom
- impalpable
- impenetrable
- impenetrably
- indiscernible
- lost
- non-intuitive
- obscurely
- obscurity
- oracular
- prolix
- wasted onsomeoneidiom
- word salad