Ambivalent Definition

ăm-bĭvə-lənt
adjective
Exhibiting or feeling ambivalence.
American Heritage

Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.

Wiktionary

Alternately having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.

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Origin of Ambivalent

  • From ambivalence, from German Ambivalenz, from Latin ambi- (“in two ways") + valeō (“be strong")

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