An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
AMBIGUOUS
ambiguous
(adjective) having more than one possible meaning; “ambiguous words”; “frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy”
equivocal, ambiguous
(adjective) 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”
ambiguous
(adjective) having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns; “an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference”; “ambiguous inkblots”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
ambiguous (comparative more ambiguous, superlative most ambiguous)
Open to multiple interpretations.
Synonym: equivocal
Antonym: unambiguous
Vague and unclear.
Antonyms: unambiguous, clear, precise
(obsolete, of persons) Hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides.
Source: Wiktionary
Am*big"u*ous, a. Etym: [L. ambiguus, fr. ambigere to wander about, waver; amb- + agere to drive.]
Definition: 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. What have been thy answers What but dark, Ambiguous, and with double sense deluding Milton.
Syn.
– Doubtful; dubious; uncertain; unsettled; indistinct; indeterminate; indefinite. See Equivocal.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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