ambiguous

Adjective

• having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns
  • an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference
    
  • ambiguous inkblots
    

• having more than one possible meaning
  • ambiguous words
    
  • frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Antonyms: 
  unambiguous , unequivocal , univocal