ambivalent
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7.1
- adjective
- /æmˈbɪvələnt/
:
ambivalente
- I've always said I feel ambivalent about Donald Trump.
- ambivalent feelings
- remain ambivalent
- an ambivalent attitude
I've always said I feel ambivalent about Donald Trump.
- I've always said I feel ambivalent about Donald Trump.
- And so I hope that some of these will will stir contradictory, ambivalent thoughts amongst us all.
- I'm only going to say that with each passing week, I remain ambivalent about this.
- And that is the world is ambivalent about American power and America has become ambivalent about using its power.
- I'm, I'm ambivalent on that, but overall, people have too many biases.
- And at that point you are are already ambivalent, so it's very easy for them to step right in and turn the situation to what they want.
- Like you get this sort of weird ambivalent attachment style where you're hot and cold as well and it's just super damaging.
- She ends up becoming kind of a, an icon for, for feminists later on, but she herself was somewhat ambivalent about that.
- That can be even, it could be ambivalent or worse than that.
- You can either say yes for totally OK, morally ambivalent or morally wrong.
- Despite all those rational neurons, many people feel ambivalent about these breakups or even hurt.
- The fact that people are so like you, the fact that people are so ambivalent sometimes about success.
- But underneath that, the real issue is that as a society, we're really ambivalent about do we really want to help and who we want to help.
- I feel very ambivalent, like I look at myself and I don't hate anything I see.
Examples
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My predecessor felt you had an ambivalent relationship with him.
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Even many lesbian and gay people, myself included, feel ambivalent about gay marriage.
Fiction book (2002) -
Are you ambivalent about his death?
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You write about people like me - ambivalent characters who believe in nothing, least of all themselves.
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Local authorities, especially elected members, are often ambivalent about community leaders.
Academic text (2008) -
Yeah, I'm feeling a little ambivalent about that right now.
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Our relations with him up until now have been ambivalent.
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In the West, we have long had an ambivalent relationship with Greek antiquity.
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Despite all those rational neurons, many people feel ambivalent about these breakups or even hurt.
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She felt ambivalent about accepting the job offer, torn between the high salary and her desire for a better work-life balance.
Synonyms
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4.4
Not sure because you have two opposite feelings
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4.2
Feeling pulled between two choices or loyalties
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5.4
People have different opinions about something
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6.7
Feeling unsure about which choice to make
Antonyms
How Conflicted
Surface Forms
Morphology
ambivalent = valent (semi-transparent) = ambi + valent
The prefix 'ambi-' meaning 'both' combines with the combining form 'valent' to give the sense 'having mixed or both feelings', but 'valent' is a less familiar combining form for average learners.
Etymology
Ambivalent comes from the parts ambi- meaning 'both', as in ambidextrous, and valent meaning 'strong', so to be ambivalent is to have 'two strong' or mixed feelings at the same time and be unsure what to choose.