ambivalent English

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What does ambivalent mean?

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ambivalent Adjective

— If you are ambivalent, then you do not have a preference.

— I'm ambivalent about what to do because I see good reasons for both options.

ambivalent

— adjective uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow was ambivalent about having children

Synonyms ambivalent synonyms

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ambivalent English » English

undecided

equivocal

conflicting

ambiguous

undetermined

uncertain

self-contradictory

plurivalent

pending

of two minds

irresolute

indeterminate

indecisive

incompatible

dissonant

contradictory

confused

clashing

bittersweet

at odds

Topics ambivalent topics

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Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Unsure

• What words refer to not being sure about something?
  not be sure not be certain be unsure be uncertain not know doubt wonder can't be sure not be confident be indefinite about ambivalent

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Simple sentences

I'm ambivalent about the itinerary for our overseas trip which my brother has drawn up.

Movie subtitles

She is ambivalent.

Everybody here's a bit ambivalent.

My predecessor felt you had an ambivalent relationship with him.

I'm sexually ambivalent.

Ambivalent about sex in general, or ambivalent about sex with me?

Ambivalent about sex with girls.

But I'm more ambivalent about what you do.

Obviously I have ambivalent feelings about owning a house.

Voyager's crew is counting on that success, but I find myself ambivalent, so I am carrying out my.

You're deeply ambivalent.

I'm so ambivalent about Steve and moving forward.

There's nothing wrong with feeling ambivalent, Seven.

I am not ambivalent about wanting kids.

Crime scene's ambivalent.

You do not make it easy, Jimmy. I have to admit, I am deeply ambivalent.

Master, your sexually ambivalent ex-wife is here.

I'm not ambivalent, I'm exploring.

However ambivalent you feel about it, your powers could be limitless.

But you know, Larry, I'm more ambivalent about what you do.

I'm ambivalent.

Then you're ambivalent about wanting kids with me?

I have to admit, I am deeply ambivalent.

I have to admit, it doesn't sound like the Brian Kinney we all know and feel ambivalent about.

But I am ambivalent about his work.

Even so, Sarah was ambivalent about the house she occupied.

I'd feel better if you appeared even a little ambivalent.

I'm extremely ambivalent.

And you've never sensed any of his ambivalent feelings towards you?

News and current affairs

But since the 1980's, the US has been ambivalent about the ultimate military and civilian utility of its space efforts.

Indeed, German public opinion remains deeply ambivalent about the euro, and increasingly disillusioned its continual decline against the dollar (and the pound).

Public opinion in some candidate countries was ambivalent about the EU even before Chirac's remarks.

Putin's position on global warming would be less ambivalent.

Immediately following the coup, the European Union adopted an ambivalent position toward it.

The public, disillusioned by the kleptocratic regimes of Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif that preceded Musharraf, is far too wretched and ambivalent to rise up.

But the double game proved unsustainable: the Islamists were less inclined than their now-ambivalent patron to draw sophistical distinctions between one kind of enemy and another.

The ambivalent relationship between Russia and its Muslims is deeply rooted in history.

But more and more we hear that our ability and willingness to manipulate natural processes is itself unnatural --an indictment that reflects our ambivalent relationship with nature.

The legacy of dead dictators from vanquished totalitarian regimes should no longer be ambivalent.

No surprise, then, that countries are ambivalent about preparing themselves to insure against financial shocks.

The IMF's economic framework still does not provide for countercyclical fiscal policies, because the IMF remains ambivalent about the standard Keynesian prescription of stimulating an economy in a downturn.

Today's flux in the Middle East is a highly ambivalent affair, because the situation can improve or (more likely) deteriorate.

If this happens when we claim to love trees, I shudder to think what would happen if we were ambivalent about them?

They were not discouraged by his ambivalent perception of them (by turns celebrating their traditional domesticity and glorifying their sexual objectification).

On the other side stand the established democracies, hesitant and ambivalent in their support of the rebels.

Some of this had to do with his ambivalent anglophobia and his distrust of his mother, Queen Victoria's daughter.

As a result, the spread of the Colombia Plan, despite its meager and ambivalent results, has remained obscured.

And Park, whose victory has not diminished her people's ambivalent attitude toward her father, must know that healing the obvious divisions in South Korean society will not be easy.

Uzbekistan, especially, has presented an extremely cautious, even ambivalent, face in public.

Just as he dithered over going to war with the US, Hirohito was hopelessly ambivalent about how to end it.

From Israel's viewpoint, the rise to power of Sunni political Islam throughout the region over the past two years will lead to an ambivalent outcome.