All double-entendre synonyms
dou·ble en·ten·dre
D d noun double-entendre
- play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
- innuendo — an indirect intimation about a person or thing, especially of a disparaging or a derogatory nature.
- pun — the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- vagueness — (of persons) not clear or definite in thought, understanding, or expression: vague about his motives; a vague person.
- doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- uncertainty — the state of being uncertain; doubt; hesitancy: His uncertainty gave impetus to his inquiry.
- obscurity — the state or quality of being obscure.
- puzzle — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- dubiousness — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- indefiniteness — not definite; without fixed or specified limit; unlimited: an indefinite number.
- anagram — An anagram is a word or phrase formed by changing the order of the letters in another word or phrase. For example, 'triangle' is an anagram of 'integral'.
- dubiety — doubtfulness; doubt.
- incertitude — uncertainty or doubtfulness.
- polysemy — a condition in which a single word, phrase, or concept has more than one meaning or connotation.
- inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
- indeterminate — not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.
- ambiguity — If you say that there is ambiguity in something, you mean that it is unclear or confusing, or it can be understood in more than one way.
- joke — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.