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ambivalent
[am-biv-uh-luhnt]
adjective
having mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable to choose between two (usually opposing) courses of action.
The whole family was ambivalent about the move to the suburbs.
She is regarded as a morally ambivalent character in the play.
Psychology.of or relating to the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action, simultaneously drawing that individual in opposite directions.
Other 51Թ Forms
- ambivalently adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of ambivalent1
Example Sentences
A lanky, warm presence with a sociable smile, Turner-Seed is never far from a keenly observed thought or ambivalent feeling.
He wanted to come out, but he was ambivalent and anxious about it.
But the education and knowledge he carries also makes him deeply ambivalent about the very nature of fire suppression.
The EU has previously said this deal would be on offer to the UK but the government had retained an ambivalent stance on whether it would accept this.
Ian Millhiser of Vox attended a Federalist Society gathering and found the conservative legal community "far more ambivalent about their president’s second term than one might expect after such a fruitful partnership."
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