Usually means: Mixed feelings, contradictory emotions coexist.
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  1. ambivalent: Merriam-Webster
  2. ambivalent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ambivalent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ambivalent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ambivalent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ambivalent, ambivalent: Wordnik
  7. ambivalent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ambivalent: Wiktionary
  9. ambivalent: Dictionary.com
  10. ambivalent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Ambivalent (song), Ambivalent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. ambivalent: Rhymezone
  13. ambivalent: FreeDictionary.org
  14. ambivalent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. ambivalent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. ambivalent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  17. ambivalent: Merriam-Webster

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  1. ambivalent: Legal dictionary

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  1. ambivalent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ambivalent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. ambivalent: Medical dictionary

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  1. ambivalent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ambivalent)

▸ 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.

Similar:
ambiguous, equivocal, unsure, incertain, uncertain, contraspective, self-contradictory, paradoxical, conflicting, contradictional, more...

Opposite:
certain, decisive, resolute, determined, unwavering

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

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

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Similar:
ambiguous, equivocal, unsure, incertain, uncertain, contraspective, self-contradictory, paradoxical, conflicting, contradictional, more...

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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