Meaning & Definition of Equivocal in English

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. Open to question

• "Aliens of equivocal loyalty"

• "His conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son"-anna jameson

3. Uncertain as a sign or indication

• "The evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal"