So weâre here at Nottingham Trent University and the time on the clock says nine minutes and thirty five seconds, which I think is phenomenal. That was with filming breaks, unkind traffic lights. I reckon if you were late for a lecture you could do it in four minutes.
ambiguous. adj. 1. having more than one possible interpretation or meaning. 2. difficult to understand or classify; obscure. [C16: from Latin ambiguus going here and there, uncertain, from ambigere to go around, from ambi- + agere to lead, act].
cryptic implies a purposely concealed meaning. cryptic hints of hidden treasure; ambiguous applies to language capable of more than one interpretation. an ambiguous directive; equivocal applies to language left open to differing interpretations with the intention of deceiving or evading. moral precepts with equivocal phrasing