Word Meanings - AMBIGUOUSLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.
Related words: (words related to AMBIGUOUSLY)
- DOUBTFULLY
In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - AMBIGUOUS
Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression. What have been thy answers What but dark, Ambiguous, - AMBIGUOUSNESS
Ambiguity. - DOUBTFULNESS
1. State of being doubtful. 2. Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." Locke. 3. Uncertainty of event or issue. Bacon. - MEAN
menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - MEANDROUS; MEANDRY
Winding; flexuous. - MEANDER
Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement. - DOUBTFUL
1. Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure. Methinks I should - MEANLY
Moderately. A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham. - MEAN-SPIRITED
Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n. - MEANDRINA
A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals. - MEANTIME; MEANWHILE
The intervening time; as, in the meantime . - MEANNESS
1. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison. 2. A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness. - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - MEANT
of Mean. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - MEANDRIAN
Winding; having many turns. - MISDEMEAN
To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self. - DEMEANURE
Behavior. Spenser. - REMEANT
Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n. - INTERMEAN
Something done in the meantime; interlude. B. Jonson. - UNMEANT
Not meant or intended; unintentional. Dryden. - DEMEANANCE
Demeanor. Skelton. - FOREMEANT
Intended beforehand; premeditated. Spenser. - CADMEAN
Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- Cadmean letters. Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished; - PIGMEAN
See PYGMEAN - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.