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unclear
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective unclear has 3 senses
- unclear(a = adj.all) ill-defined - poorly stated or described; "he confuses the reader with ill-defined terms and concepts" Derived form noun unclearness1
- unclear(a = adj.all) Array - not clear to the mind; "the law itself was unclear on that point"; "the reason for their actions is unclear to this day" Antonym: clear
- unclear(s = adj.all) indecipherable, undecipherable, unreadable - not easily deciphered; "indecipherable handwriting" Derived form noun unclearness1
Derived form noun unclearness1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
unclear, adj.
1 not clear or easy to understand; obscure, uncertain.
2 (of a person) doubtful, uncertain (I'm unclear as to what you mean).
1 not clear or easy to understand; obscure, uncertain.
2 (of a person) doubtful, uncertain (I'm unclear as to what you mean).
Derivative
unclearly adv. unclearness n.
THESAURUS
unclear
aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphic, amorphous, amphibological, anarchic, baggy, barely audible, blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, clear as mud, cloudy, confused, dark, decrescendo, dim, disordered, disorderly, distant, dubious, equivocal, faint, faint-voiced, featureless, feeble, filmy, foggy, formless, fuzzy, general, gentle, half-heard, half-seen, half-visible, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, illegible, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, inconspicuous, indecipherable, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inexact, inform, kaleidoscopic, lax, loose, low, low-profile, lumpen, merely glimpsed, misty, muddy, murky, murmured, nebulous, nondescript, nonspecific, obscure, opaque, open, orderless, out of focus, pale, pianissimo, piano, problematic, random, scarcely heard, semivisible, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, stochastic, subaudible, subdued, suspect, sweeping, tenebrous, transcendent, uncertain, undecipherable, undefined, undestined, undetermined, unintelligible, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unreadable, unrecognizable, unsettled, unspecified, unsure, vague, veiled, weak, weak-voiced, whispered
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