ambivalent
About 2.79 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
- adjective Alternately being or having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent.
Similar words
equivocal ambiguous uncertain unsure incertain conflicting paradoxical contradictory self-contradictory inconsistent
Often followed by
about feelings attitude and relationship in attitudes position toward
Word family
ambivalently
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