Meanings
comparative more unambiguously · superlative most unambiguously
- In a manner that is not ambiguous; leaving no doubt; clearly.
She told him unambiguously to leave, yet he failed to leave.
1 more example
The break with tradition that Francis, who has died aged 88 after suffering from double pneumonia, represented even managed to trump the shock value of the resignation of Benedict, who was the first pope for 600 years to take that option rather than die in office. Immediately, Bergoglio signalled unambiguously that he intended to be a different kind of pope, one for the 21st century.
2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2025Synonyms: expressly, unequivocally
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn a manner that is not ambiguous; leaving no doubt; clearly.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbso as to be unique
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
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishun-
- Englishambiguous
- Englishambiguously
- Englishunambiguously
From unambiguous + -ly, or from un- + ambiguously.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan inequívocament
- inequívocamentunambiguously
Czech jednoznačně
- jednoznačněunambiguously
Finnish yksiselitteisesti
- yksiselitteisestiunambiguously
Greek αναμφίσημα
- αναμφίσημα (anamfísima)unambiguously
Hungarian egyértelműen
- egyértelműenunambiguously
Italian univocamente
- univocamenteunambiguously
Portuguese inequivocamente, sem ambiguidades
- inequivocamenteunambiguously
- sem ambiguidadesunambiguously
Russian недвусмысленно
- недвусмысленно (nedvusmyslenno)unambiguously
Spanish inequívocamente
- inequívocamenteunambiguously
Cite this entry
unambiguously. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unambiguously
“unambiguously.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unambiguously. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unambiguously,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unambiguously.
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