ambiguify
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "So the performer must understand what Mozart has done — that he takes our universal instinct of symmetry and plays with it, violates it, ambiguifies it, by using the equally universal process of deletion to operate counter to those instinctive symmetrical forces that operate in us."
- "Ultimately, however, even that recognition is ambiguified in Maria's refusal to confront the party responsible for her poisoned pregnancy."
- "Most oddly, the controversy that trailed the emergence of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the President of Nigeria in April, 2011, has further beclouded and ambiguified the very content and practice of power zoning."
- "A third technique commonly used by Japanese game developers might be described as ambiguifying. This technique embraces mukokuseki or statelessness as a design strategy, in which characters have ambiguous racial and cultural backgrounds (for example, having blue hair), in order to appeal to the broadest market possible."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts? Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder. Proto-Italic *amβi- Latin ambi- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin ambig(ō) Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Italic *-wos Latin -uus Latin ambiguuslbor. English ambigu(ous) Latin -i- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *θakos Proto-Italic *-fakos Latin -ficus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -ficō Latin -ificāreder. Old French -ifierbor. Middle English -ifien English -ify English ambiguify From ambigu(ous) + -ify.