two-sided personality
- noun
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personalidad dual
- The author described the villain's two-sided personality as both charming and cruel.
Examples
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His two-sided personality made it difficult for colleagues to trust him completely.
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Her two-sided personality often leaves her friends guessing how she will react.
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She has a two-sided personality that surprises everyone.
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His two-sided personality makes it hard to trust him.
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Her two-sided personality often leaves her friends guessing how she will react.
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His two-sided personality made it difficult for colleagues to trust him completely.
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The author's portrayal of the villain's two-sided personality revealed contrasting traits that captivated readers.
Synonyms
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A person who is sometimes kind and sometimes cruel
Antonyms
How Contradictory
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3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'two-sided' (having two conflicting sides) modifies 'personality' to yield a personality with contradictory traits, so the overall sense is derivable from the parts. This adjective+noun pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Two-sided personality may come from the image of a mask or a coin with two-sided faces, one friendly and one cold. So it means a person's personality shows 'opposite traits', and people never know which side they will see.