open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; an equivocal statement; the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates; the officers equivocal behavior increased the victims uneasiness; popularity is an equivocal crown; an equivocal response to an embarrassing question

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open to question; aliens of equivocal loyalty; his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son-Anna Jameson

uncertain as a sign or indication; the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal'