Ambiguous
Ambiguous adjective - Having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning.
Exclusive and ambiguous are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Exclusive" instead an adjective "Ambiguous".
Nearby Words: ambiguity, ambiguously
Mutual synonyms
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The expression refers to an ambiguous situation with mutually exclusive outcomes.
Source: Ambiguous Syntax -
When certain stimuli are ambiguous between two mutually exclusive interpretations it cannot represent the world as being both so (for some reason - possibly adaptation or perhaps simply as a result of neuronal fatigue) it alternates between them.
Source: Logic Bomb - The art of playing mutually exclusive tropes at the same time, by making the situation itself ambiguous so the viewers/readers can't know for sure what's going on.
Source: Ambiguous Situation
Cite this Source
Exclusive and Ambiguous. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/ambiguous/exclusive
Ambiguous & Exclusive. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/ambiguous/exclusive>.
Exclusive or Ambiguous. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/ambiguous/exclusive.
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