Hyphenation of ambiguous

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word ambiguous? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

am-bigu-ous

Definitions of ambiguous:

1.	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
2.	Having more than one possible meaning Ambiguous words Frustrated by ambiguous instructions
3.	The parents were unable to assemble the toy
4.	Having no intrinsic or objective meaning Not organized in conventional patterns An ambiguous situation with no frame of reference Ambiguous inkblots

Synonyms of ambiguous:

adj	equivocal, ambivalent, double, forked, evasive, indeterminate
adj	ambiguous, double-barreled, double-barrelled, double-edged, enigmatic, oracular, left-handed, multivalent, multi-valued, polysemous, polysemantic, uncertain, equivocal, unclear
adj	unstructured

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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