ambivalent

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Pronunciation

• (RP, America) IPA: /æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt/

Adjective

ambivalent

1. Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.
2. Alternately having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.

   He has an ambivalent relationship towards his parents.

Synonyms

• (simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing feelings) conflicted, uncertain, undecided, unresolved
• (alternately feeling opposing feelings) vacillating, fluctuating, wavering

Related terms

• ambiguous
• ambivalence
• ambivalently
• equivalent

Translations

• French: ambivalent
• German: ambivalent#German|ambivalent, doppelwertig, zwiespältig
• Italian: ambivalente
• Portuguese: ambivalente
• Russian: дво́йственный
• Spanish: ambivalente

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