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un·am·big·u·ous

(ŭn′ăm-bĭg′yo͞o-əs)

adj.

Having or exhibiting no ambiguity or uncertainty; clear.

un′am·big′u·ous·ly adv.

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unambiguous

(ˌʌnæmˈbɪɡjʊəs)

adj

not ambiguous; clear: an unambiguous message.

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un•am•big•u•ous

(ˌʌn æmˈbɪg yu əs)
adj.

not ambiguous; clear.

[1750–55]

un`am•big′u•ous•ly, adv.

un`am•big′u•ous•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	unambiguous - having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; "As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous"- Mario Vargas Llosa clear - readily apparent to the mind; "a clear and present danger"; "a clear explanation"; "a clear case of murder"; "a clear indication that she was angry"; "gave us a clear idea of human nature" unequivocal, univocal, unambiguous - admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion; "unequivocal evidence"; "took an unequivocal position"; "an unequivocal success"; "an unequivocal promise"; "an unequivocal (or univocal) statement" ambiguous - having more than one possible meaning; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"
	2.	unambiguous - admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion; "unequivocal evidence"; "took an unequivocal position"; "an unequivocal success"; "an unequivocal promise"; "an unequivocal (or univocal) statement" unequivocal, univocal unambiguous - having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; "As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous"- Mario Vargas Llosa

unambiguous

adjective

1. Clearly defined; not ambiguous:

clear, distinct, sharp, unequivocal, unmistakable.

2. Clearly, fully, and sometimes emphatically expressed:

categorical, clear, clear-cut, decided, definite, explicit, express, positive, precise, specific, unequivocal.

Translations

unambiguous

[ˈʌnæmˈbɪgjʊəs] ADJ → inequívoco

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

unambiguous

[ˌʌnæmˈbɪgjʊəs] adj → sans ambiguïté

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

unambiguous

adj, unambiguously

adv → eindeutig, unzweideutig

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

unambiguous

[ˌʌnæmˈbɪgjʊəs] adj → non ambiguo/a, inequivocabile

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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The building trades asserted its position in unambiguous terms, and all San Francisco was in turmoil.

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"Every psychical phenomenon is characterized by what the scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional (also the mental) inexistence of an object, and what we, although with not quite unambiguous expressions, would call relation to a content, direction towards an object (which is not here to be understood as a reality), or immanent objectivity.

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52): "This is the first really unambiguous example of ecology playing a role in the morphological differences between the sexes." The statement exhibits the annoyingly common practice among zoologists to think and generalize as if only animals (and, even worse, only vertebrates) and their literature matter.

Letters

Targeting "serious" traders, who average 29 trades per day, and the relatively small but growing number of day-trading companies that provide customers with high-speed terminals and real-time quotes (currently an estimated 60 firms nationally), Collins calls day trading "little more than a game of chance." Amazed by the boldness of industry claims and ad pitches, such as Lazy Day Trader's pledge that "You don't have to be able to understand Economics, the Stock Market or International Finance," Collins wants the industry to provide unambiguous warnings of risk--announcing that one's chances of making money with a capitalization of less than $50,000 are slim.

No Trading Today

The notes to the Bible and to the Nashe and Marprelate texts are unambiguous, assertive claims for intellectual territory.

Margins and Marginality: The Printed Page in Early Modern England

Similar to Coggin, the Fifth Circuit rejected the IRS's position, holding that the statute's language was unambiguous and that under the statute, partnership interests were not among the specific properties listed as being subject to recapture on distribution.

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The unambiguous low point of the president's speech came when he introduced a collection of "never-before-seen pictures of the White House ...

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It looks like "installation art" before the fact, until one notices the unambiguous caption in the catalogue that describes her work-- "Cell floor decorated with torn strips of cloth." Lieb's life as a patient indeed foreclosed on the possibility that her creation could be called "art": first because the culture of 1894 precluded it, and second because her illness--signaled by the very making of these floor arrangements--kept them, and her, confined within the asylum.

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In the court's view, these sections provide unambiguous guidance.

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Until the FBI can demonstrate that its own house is in unambiguous order, it will rightly have little legitimacy and inspire little trust as it surveils the lives of private citizens.

Out of sight, out of hand? The FBI flunks the character issue

Unfortunately for Steen's chosen sampling of the resulting critical heritage, Anglophone culture was for most of the period she surveys invested in finding very different things in Renaissance drama - solitary original genius, unambiguous morality, transcendence of material circumstances; as a result Ambrosia in an Earthern Vessel is, with an appropriate Middletonian irony, the definitive critical history of a virtual absence of critical history.

Ambrosia in an Eastern Vessel: Three Centuries of Audience and Reader Response to the Works of Thomas Middleton

While the position stated in the Bolton letter is unambiguous, it failed to address the fact that the ICC institution claims "universal jurisdiction" to prosecute war crimes and other crimes against humanity.