equivocally

1. 1.

   in an ambiguous manner

   “this letter is worded ambiguously”

   Synonymsambiguously

Questions about equivocally

What does equivocally mean?

equivocally means "in an ambiguous manner".

How many syllables are in equivocally?

equivocally has 5 syllables and divides as eq-ui-vo-cal-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for equivocally?

Close synonyms include ambiguously. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is equivocally a common word?

equivocally is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.