having more than one possible interpretation or meaning
2.
difficult to understand or classify; obscure
ambagious in American English
(æmˈbeidʒəs)
adjective
roundabout; circuitous
ambagious reasoning
Derived forms
ambagiously
adverb
ambagiousness
noun
Word origin
[1650–60; ‹ L ambāgiōsus, equiv. to ambāgi- (s. of ambāgēsambages) + -ōsus-ous]This word is first recorded in the period 1650–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: agency, backhand, gas, oscillation, siphon-ous is a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of”a given quality (covetous; glorious; nervous; wondrous); -ous and its variant -ious have often been used to Anglicize Latin adjectives with terminations that cannotbe directly adapted into English (atrocious; contiguous; garrulous; obvious; stupendous). As an adjective-forming suffix of neutral value, it regularly Anglicizes Greekand Latin adjectives derived without suffix from nouns and verbs; many such formationsare productive combining forms in English, sometimes with a corresponding nominalcombining form that has no suffix (as -fer and -ferous; -phore and -phorous; -pter and -pterous; -vore and -vorous)