AMBIVALENT meaning: Mixed feelings, contradictory emotions coexist

We found 25 dictionaries that define the word ambivalent:

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ambivalent: Merriam-Webster
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ambivalent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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Ambivalent, ambivalent: Wordnik
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ambivalent: Dictionary.com
ambivalent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Ambivalent (song), Ambivalent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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ambivalent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ambivalent: Merriam-Webster

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ambivalent: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective: Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.
▸ adjective: Alternately being or having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.

Opposite:

certain, decisive, resolute, determined, unwavering

Types:

indifferent, neutral, uncommitted, undecided, more...

Phrases:

Ambivalent sexism, opposite of ambivalent, ambivalent about, more...

Colors:

gray, taupe, mauve, olive, teal, more...

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