Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

06761603-n 'an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement';

English

hedge ( ⊳ ) , hedging ( ⊳ )

Definitions

Japanese: 意図的に言質を与えないまたは曖昧な言明
― あなたが『多分』と言うとき、あなたは保険をかけているだろう
English: an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
― when you say `maybe' you are just hedging

Relations

Hypernym:	evasion
Semantic Field:	communication_n

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ ▲ ▷ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.266; Future: 0.001)

SentiWN: △ ▽ (+0.00 -0.00) MLSentiCon: △ ▼ (+0.00 -0.25)