DOUBLE MEANING

Crosswords: DOUBLE MEANING

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Equivocalness

Noun: equivocalness; Adjective: double meaning; ambiguity, double entente, double entendre, pun, paragram, calembour, quibble, equivoque, anagram; conundrum; (riddle); play on words, word play; (wit); homonym, homonymy; amphiboly, amphibology; ambilogy, ambiloquy.

Uncertainty

Vagueness; Adjective: haze, fog; obscurity; (darkness); ambiguity; (double meaning); contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question; (question); onus probandi; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission.

A double meaning. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expression using "DOUBLE MEANING": of double meaning. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

двусмислен (ambiguity, ambiguous, dark, double, double-barrelled, double-hearted, equivocal, oracular, two-edged, vague), двусмислие (ambiguity). (various references)

Czech

dvojí smysl. (various references)

Hebrew 

תרתי משמע (ambivalent, of double meaning). (various references)

Hungarian

kétértelmû szó, kétértelmû (ambiguous, ambivalent, double entendre, equivocal, oracular, two sided). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

両義 (two meanings). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

りょうぎ (two meanings). (various references)

Pig Latin

oubleday eaningmay

Romanian

cu douã înţelesuri. (various references)

Russian 

обманчивый (captious, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, double-meaning, illusive, misleading, specious), двоякое значение. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dvosmislenost (ambiguity, double entendre, equivoke, equivoque), dvosmislen (ambiguous, double edged, double-barrelled, equivocal, evasive, indeterminate). (various references)

Spanish

de dos sentidos, pensamientos dobles. (various references)

Swedish

dubbelmening. (various references)

Turkish

lastikli söz (double entendre, double talk, pun), çift anlamlı söz (double entendre), çift anlamlı (double-barreled, double-barrelled). (various references)

Ukrainian

брехливий (calumniuos, double-tongued, lying, mendacious, scurrilous, untruthful), двозначність (ambiguity, amphibology, amphiboly, equivocation, oracularity). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lời hai ý, câu hai nghĩa (doub'e entendre). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: emboldening.

-3 letters: undeniable.

-4 letters: abounding, bedamning, belauding, bemeaning, bemingled, bemoaning, bengaline, demeaning, denominal, enameling, euglenoid, idealogue, loudening, mandoline, menadione, meningeal, nonedible, nonleague, nonlegume, unaligned, unleading, unloading, unmingled, unmolding.

-5 letters: adeeming, amending, amidogen, beguiled, belonged, bemingle, bemoaned, benaming, biennale, bleeding, blending, blindage, bludgeon, bonemeal, bounding, bundling, deboning, demilune, demonian, deniable, dialogue, doubling, eloigned, embolden, emending.