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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unclear
adjective
1: poorly stated or described; "he confuses the reader with ill-defined terms and concepts" [syn: {ill-defined}] [ant: {well-defined}]
2: not clear to the mind; "the law itself was unclear on that point"; "the reason for their actions is unclear to this day" [ant: {clear}]
3: not easily deciphered; "indecipherable handwriting" [syn: {indecipherable}, {undecipherable}, {unreadable}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
122 Moby Thesaurus words for "unclear": aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphic, amorphous, amphibological, anarchic, baggy, barely audible, blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, clear as mud, cloudy, confused, dark, decrescendo, dim, disordered, disorderly, distant, dubious, equivocal, faint, faint-voiced, featureless, feeble, filmy, foggy, formless, fuzzy, general, gentle, half-heard, half-seen, half-visible, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, illegible, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, inconspicuous, indecipherable, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inexact, inform, kaleidoscopic, lax, loose, low, low-profile, lumpen, merely glimpsed, misty, muddy, murky, murmured, nebulous, nondescript, nonspecific, obscure, opaque, open, orderless, out of focus, pale, pianissimo, piano, problematic, random, scarcely heard, semivisible, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, stochastic, subaudible, subdued, suspect, sweeping, tenebrous, transcendent, uncertain, undecipherable, undefined, undestined, undetermined, unintelligible, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unreadable, unrecognizable, unsettled, unspecified, unsure, vague, veiled, weak, weak-voiced, whispered
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