ambivalent
adjective/æmˈbɪvələnt/
/æmˈbɪvələnt/
- ambivalent (about/towards somebody/something) having or showing both positive and negative feelings about somebody/something
- She seems to feel ambivalent about her new job.
- He has an ambivalent attitude towards the changes.
Extra Examples- The party's position on nuclear weapons is deeply ambivalent.
- She is deeply ambivalent about her feelings for him.
- The public reaction to boxing is now ambivalent.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- seem
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- about
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from ambivalence (from German Ambivalenz), on the pattern of equivalent.
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