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unambiguous

unambiguous adjective: clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity.

Adjective

unambiguous (comparative more unambiguous, superlative most unambiguous)

  1. Clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity.
    • An LR(k) grammar is clearly unambiguous, since the definition implies every derivation tree must have the same handle, and by induction there is only one possible tree. It is interesting to point out furthermore that nearly every grammar which is known to be unambiguous is either an LR(k) grammar...1965 July, Donald Knuth, “On the Translation of Languages from Left to Right”, in Information and Control, volume 8, pages 639–707
    • At the height of the crisis, according to a retired SAC wing commander, SAC airborne alert bombers deliberately flew past their turnaround points toward Soviet airspace, an unambiguous threat which Soviet radar operators would certainly have recognized and reported. "I knew what my target was," the...1995, Richard Rhodes, “Scorpions in a Bottle”, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 575

unambiguous meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Arabic

unambiguous in Tamil

நேரடிப் பொருள் தருகிற, பொருள்மயக்கமற்ற, தெளிவான, விளக்கமான

unambiguous in Urdu

غیرمشکوک, محکم, صاف صاف

unambiguous in Kannada

clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
ನಿಸ್ಸಂದಿಗ್ಧ nissandigdha

unambiguous in Arabic

clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity
غَيْر مُبْهَم ḡayr mubham
More languagesFewer languages
unambiguous in Indonesian
awataksa
unambiguous in Persian
روشن rowšan, بی ابهام bi ebhâm

Examples of unambiguous in a sentence

  • An LR(k) grammar is clearly unambiguous, since the definition implies every derivation tree must have the same handle, and by induction there is only one possible tree.1965 July, Donald Knuth, “On the Translation of Languages from Left to Right”, in Information and Control, volume 8, pages 639–707:
  • Other editors opposed to Atsme’s edits were just as unambiguous.2024 August 29, Ashley Rindsberg, “How Wikipedia Launders Regime Propaganda”, in Pirate Wires, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2024:

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Synonyms of unambiguous

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of unambiguous

Forms of unambiguous

comparativemore unambiguous
superlativemost unambiguous

Origin of unambiguous

From un- + ambiguous.

Words formed from unambiguous

Words that rhyme with unambiguous

Questions about unambiguous

What does unambiguous mean?
Unambiguous means clear, and having no uncertainty or ambiguity.
What is unambiguous in Tamil?
Unambiguous in Tamil is நேரடிப் பொருள் தருகிற, பொருள்மயக்கமற்ற, தெளிவான. See Unambiguous meaning in Tamil.
How do you use unambiguous in a sentence?
An LR(k) grammar is clearly unambiguous, since the definition implies every derivation tree must have the same handle, and by induction there is only one possible tree.
What part of speech is unambiguous?
Unambiguous is an adjective.

Words near unambiguous in the dictionary

  1. unamazedly
  2. unamazing
  3. unambassadorial
  4. unambiguities
  5. unambiguity
  6. unambiguous
  7. unambiguously
  8. unambiguousness
  9. unambition
  10. unambitious
  11. unambitiously

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unambiguous (page history and authors); unambiguous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unambiguous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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