equivocal

Adjective

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

• 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
    

• 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 officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness
    
  • popularity is an equivocal crown
    
  • an equivocal response to an embarrassing question
    

Related words

• Antonyms: 
  unequivocal , univocal , unambiguous