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.
Origin of ambivalent
1Back formation from ambivalence
Other words from ambivalent
- am·biv·a·lent·ly, adverb
Words that may be confused with ambivalent
- ambiguous, ambivalent
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How to use ambivalent in a sentence
Add an option for hybrid learning, however, and the nation is more ambivalent.
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