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Unambiguous

adjective

Having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning.

Admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion. Synonyms: unequivocal, univocal. "Took an unequivocal position" , "An unequivocal success" , "An unequivocal promise" , "An unequivocal (or univocal) statement"

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"Unambiguous" Quotes from Famous Books

... with. It will also be requisite to secure by formal agreements that the guarantee shall cease, and the grants of land for railway purposes revert to the grantors, in case of the permanent abandonment of the undertaking, of which abandonment some unambiguous test should be prescribed, such as the suspension of through communication for ...

— Canada and the States • Edward William Watkin

... of the genuineness of this piece are not altogether unambiguous; the grounds for doubt, on the other hand, are entitled to attention. However, this question is immediately connected with that respecting TITUS ANDRONICUS, and must be at the same time resolved ...

— Characters of Shakespeare's Plays • William Hazlitt

... names which, for want of better, I am necessitated to employ. It must now be the writer's endeavor so to employ them as in no case to leave the meaning doubtful or obscure. No one of the above terms being altogether unambiguous, I shall not confine myself to any one, but shall employ on each occasion the word which seems least likely in the particular case to lead to misunderstanding; nor do I pretend to use either these or any other words with a rigorous ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

Words linked to "Unambiguous" : unambiguity, univocal, straightforward, absolute, unquestionable, equivocal, ambiguous, monosemous, clear