What does ambiguously mean?
Ambiguously means In an ambiguous manner..
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/æmˈbɪɡ.ju.əs.li/ · adverb
In an ambiguous manner..
"The Stranger" was a dark, comely, youthful man's head, portentously looking out of a dark, shaded ground, and ambiguously smiling.
The bisexual name, such as Marion and Carol (and Evelyn and Vivian in England), is frequently a source of annoyance and embarrassment to the letter writer, who, if he does not know his ambiguously named correspondent personally […]
Such has always been the case: from the vamptastic and scantily clad Theda Bara as Cleopatra (1917) to the milk bath, gold chains, and lesbian dancing of Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross (1932) to the homoerotic bath of Crassus in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960), antiquity has provided an ambiguously liberated outlet for exploring contemporary fascinations – regardless of their historicity.
Use ambiguously when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ambiguously means In an ambiguous manner..
Common synonyms include equivocally.
Possible antonyms include unequivocally, unambiguously, without ambiguity.
"The Stranger" was a dark, comely, youthful man's head, portentously looking out of a dark, shaded ground, and ambiguously smiling.
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