Meanings
comparative more unambiguous · superlative most unambiguous
- Clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity.
Other editors opposed to Atsme’s edits were just as unambiguous.
2024 August 29, Ashley Rindsberg, “How Wikipedia Launders Regime Propaganda”, in Pirate Wires, archived from the original on 29 Aug 20242 more examples
An LR(k) grammar is clearly unambiguous, since the definition implies every derivation tree must have the same handle, and by induction there is only one possible tree. It is interesting to point out furthermore that nearly every grammar which is known to be unambiguous is either an LR(k) grammar, or (dually) is a right-to-left translatable grammar, or is some grammar which is translated using "both ends toward the middle." Thus, the LR(k) condition may be regarded as the most powerful general test for nonambiguity that is now available.
1965 July 28, Donald Knuth, “On the Translation of Languages from Left to Right”, in Information and Control, volume 8, pages 639–707At the height of the crisis, according to a retired SAC wing commander, SAC airborne alert bombers deliberately flew past their turnaround points toward Soviet airspace, an unambiguous threat which Soviet radar operators would certainly have recognized and reported. "I knew what my target was," the SAC general adds: "Leningrad." The bombers only turned around when the Soviet freighters carrying missiles to Cuba stopped dead in the Atlantic.
1995, Richard Rhodes, “Scorpions in a Bottle”, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 575Synonyms: explicit, monosemous, univocal, unequivocal, clear-cut
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveClear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveadmitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂m̥bʰí
- Proto-Italic*amβi-
- Latinambi-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂eǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éǵeti
- Proto-Italic*agō
- Latinagō
- Latinambig(ō)
- Latinambiguu
- Englishambiguous
- Englishunambiguous
Translations
Ancient Greek ἀδιάκριτος
- ἀδιάκριτος (adiákritos)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Arabic غَيْر مُبْهَم
- غَيْر مُبْهَم (ḡayr mubham)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Basque anbiguogabea
- anbiguogabeaclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Bulgarian недвусмислен
- недвусмислен (nedvusmislen)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Catalan inequívoc
- inequívocclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Czech jednoznačný
- jednoznačnýclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Danish entydig
- entydigclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Dutch ondubbelzinnig
- ondubbelzinnigclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Esperanto malambigua
- malambiguaclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Estonian üheselt mõistetav
- üheselt mõistetavclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Finnish yksikäsitteinen
- yksikäsitteinenclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
French sans équivoque
- sans équivoqueclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
German eindeutig, unmissverständlich
- eindeutigclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- unmissverständlichclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Greek αναμφίσημος, αναμφίβολος
- αναμφίσημος (anamfísimos)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- αναμφίβολος (anamfívolos)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- αναμφίλεκτος (anamfílektos)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- αναντίρρητος (anantírritos)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- ευκρινής (efkrinís)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- σαφής (safís)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Hungarian egyértelmű
- egyértelműclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Indonesian awataksa
- awataksaclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Irish gan athbhrí, gan débhrí
- gan athbhríclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- gan débhríclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- soiléirclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- glan soiléirclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Italian univoco
- univococlear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Korean 모호하지 않은
- 모호하지 않은 (mohohaji an-eun)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Latvian viennozīmīga
- viennozīmīgaclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Lithuanian nedviprasmiškas
- nedviprasmiškasclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Māori ariari
- ariariclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Norwegian utvetydige
- utvetydigeclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Persian روشن, بی ابهام
- روشن (rowšan)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- بی ابهام (bi ebhâm)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Polish jednoznaczny, niedwuznaczny
- jednoznacznyclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- niedwuznacznyclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Portuguese inambíguo
- inambíguoclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Romanian clar, neechivoc
- clarclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- neechivocclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- precisclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- neambiguuclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- univocclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Russian недвусмы́сленный, однозна́чный
- недвусмы́сленный (nedvusmýslennyj)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- однозна́чный (odnoznáčnyj)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Spanish carente de ambigüedad
- carente de ambigüedadclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Turkish net
- netclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Ukrainian однозна́чний, недвозна́чний
- однозна́чний (odnoznáčnyj)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
- недвозна́чний (nedvoznáčnyj)clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Welsh diamwys
- diamwysclear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with unambiguous
All rhymes →Cite this entry
unambiguous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unambiguous
“unambiguous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unambiguous. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unambiguous,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unambiguous.
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