Ambivalent
Definition
Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
Etymology
Back-formation from ambivalence, from German Ambivalenz, from Latin ambi- (“in two ways”) + valeō (“be strong”); equivalent to ambi- + -valent. Compare ambivert.
Synonyms
ambiguous, equivocal, uncertain, unsure, incertain
In a sentence
- The team was ambivalent about the rewrite — excited but exhausted.
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Vocabulary.md