English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Ambiguity
(n.)
The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or
uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising
from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or
expression.
Ambiguous
(a.)
Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to
signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more
possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous
expression.
Ambiguously
(adv.)
In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.
Ambiguousness
(n.)
Ambiguity.
Ambilevous
(a.)
Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to
ambidexter.
Ambiloquy
(n.)
Doubtful or ambiguous language.
Ambiparous
(a.)
Characterized by containing the rudiments of both
flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud.
Ambit
(n.)
Circuit or compass.
Ambition
(n.)
The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or
any other object of desire; canvassing.
Ambition
(n.)
An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for
preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.
Ambition
(v. t.)
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
Ambitionist
(n.)
One excessively ambitious.
Ambitionless
(a.)
Devoid of ambition.
Ambitious
(a.)
Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or
inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or
distinction.
Ambitious
(a.)
Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive;
as, ambitious to be or to do something.
Ambitious
(a.)
Springing from, characterized by, or indicating,
ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style.
Ambitiously
(adv.)
In an ambitious manner.
Ambitiousness
(n.)
The quality of being ambitious; ambition;
pretentiousness.
Ambitus
(n.)
The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a
leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.
Ambitus
(n.)
A canvassing for votes.