AMBIVALENT meaning: Mixed feelings, contradictory emotions coexist

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ambivalent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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▸ adjective: Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.
▸ adjective: Alternately 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, lavender, beige, sage, periwinkle, chartreuse

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