0 not clear and seeming to have two opposing meanings, or confusing and able to be understood in two different ways:
His words to the press were deliberately equivocal - he didn't deny the reports but neither did he confirm them.
1 (of statements) unclear and seeming to have two opposing meanings, or (of actions or ways of behaving) confusing and able to be understood in two different ways:
She gave an equivocal response.
Attempts at treason usually have clear outcomes - at least clearer than the often equivocal results of peaceful elections.
The brachiopods are either cosmopolitan or endemic and probably new genera; they are therefore biogeographically equivocal.
However, whether these statistically significant differences are clinically meaningful in children who do not present with major neurological injury is equivocal.
The data on errors of omission are more equivocal.
He employed, for example, the equivocal phrase "the fraternity of men and nations".
This uncertainty generated reactions of stoicism towards the equivocal result and subsequent participation in further investigations.
This certainly indicates neurocognitive abnormalities in bipolar patients' relatives, but the evidence that this is due to serotonin metabolism abnormalities is equivocal.
All sera for which the result was equivocal were retested.
