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Ambivalent
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What it means
- adjective
Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
- adjective
Alternately being or having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
“His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent.”
Where it comes from
Ambivalent was built in the early 1900s from Latin ambi, both, and valere, to be strong. It names a pull in two directions, not a failure to decide.
In a sentence
- I feel very ambivalent about this.by CK, Tatoeba
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