unambiguous
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Synonyms & Antonyms for unambiguous
Synonyms
apparent, bald, bald-faced, barefaced, bright-line, broad, clear, clear-cut, crystal clear, decided, distinct, evident, lucid, luculent, luminous, manifest, nonambiguous, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, ringing, straightforward, transparent, unambivalent, unequivocal, unmistakable
Antonyms
ambiguous, clouded, cryptic, dark, enigmatic (also enigmatical), equivocal, indistinct, mysterious, nonobvious, obfuscated, obscure, unapparent, unclarified, unclear
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Lucille, the African American maid who cared for Colin, was everything her mother was not: racially unambiguous, real and there. — Jane Tompkins, latimes.com, "Colin Dayan's 'In the Belly of Her Ghost' exorcises memories of mother after she's gone," 5 June 2019 The extent of Romania’s involvement in the Holocaust is not a topic that sits easily with those who were expecting a straightforward, unambiguous celebration of their nation’s military might. — Los Angeles Times, "Review: ‘I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians’ interrogates the past," 24 July 2019 Similar ambiguities plague all the taxonomic ranks in between — even those often considered to be major, distinct and unambiguous, like phyla. — Quanta Magazine, "What’s in a Name? Taxonomy Problems Vex Biologists," 24 June 2019 After a half-season of testing, the system was ready for the league All-Star Game, debuting with great fanfare and an unambiguous strike. — Jacob Bogage, courant.com, "’Robot ump’ calls first Atlantic League baseball game with one hitch and no controversy," 11 July 2019 In 2016, the researchers revealed that at one site, there’s unambiguous evidence for capuchin stone tools dating to about 700 years ago. — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, "These monkeys are 3,000 years into their own 'Stone Age'," 24 June 2019 Bright/loud signatures that are unambiguous and packed with info are ideal, and the quest for them should, as a side effect, produce scientific results other fields can use. — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, "The WIRED Guide to Aliens," 5 June 2019 The unified, unambiguous message from the administration made Trump’s absence even more noticeable — especially as a second meeting with Putin is still reportedly in the works. — Jen Kirby, Vox, "The US intel chief just said Russian interference is “continuing”," 2 Aug. 2018 The most systematic study of this turnaround, conducted by the political scientists Stephen Biddle, Jacob Shapiro, and Jeffrey Friedman, is unambiguous. — Hal Brands, National Review, "Lessons from the Iraq War," 20 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unambiguous.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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unambiguous
adjective
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