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unambiguous
[
uhn-am-
big
-yoo-
uh
s
]
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Origin
un·am·big·u·ous
/
ˌʌn
æmˈbɪg
yu
əs
/
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[
uhn-am-
big
-yoo-
uh
s
]
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adjective
not
ambiguous
,
or unclear; distinct; unequivocal:
The
object
of the
experiment
was to reach an unambiguous conclusion about
climate change
.
Origin:
un-
1
+
ambiguous
Related forms
un·am·big·u·ous·ly,
adverb
un·am·big·u·ous·ness,
noun
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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Boom mic is removable and pleasingly flexible, perfect for flinging clear and
unambiguous
insults at your enemies.
The laser flash should give a clear and
unambiguous
signal to stop.
The necessity of conducting an
unambiguous
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Boom mic is removable and pleasingly flexible, perfect for flinging clear and
unambiguous
insults at your enemies.
The laser flash should give a clear and
unambiguous
signal to stop.
The necessity of conducting an
unambiguous
recount became clear in the last election.
It's not as clear-cut and
unambiguous
as averaging accident rates per distance flown.
But no
unambiguous
evidence of a lunar meteor flash has ever been recorded.
The dish was pleasantly salty, deeply smoky, unapologetically rich and utterly
unambiguous
.
But a pretty
unambiguous
case of torture and the flagrant disregard for the rule of law may be harder to overlook.
But the commercial ambitions of those ads are
unambiguous
.
Chatty people can be silenced, either by wearing headphones or with clearly-spoken
unambiguous
words.
These are
unambiguous
and everyone is using the same reference.
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Collins
World English Dictionary
unambiguous
(ˌʌnæmˈbɪɡjʊəs)
—
adj
not ambiguous; clear:
an unambiguous message
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
unambiguous
1751, from
un-
(1) "not" +
ambiguous
. Related: Unambiguously.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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