Difference between Uncertain and Ambiguous

What is the difference between Uncertain and Ambiguous?

Uncertain as an adjective is not known for certain; questionable while Ambiguous as an adjective is open to multiple interpretations.

Uncertain

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: not known for certain; questionable not yet determined; undecided variable and subject to change fitful or unsteady unpredictable or capricious

Example sentence: Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!

Ambiguous

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Open to multiple interpretations.Vague and unclear.Of persons: hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides.

Example sentence: The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

We hope you now know whether to use Uncertain or Ambiguous in your sentence.

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