ambivalentadjective
uk/æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt/us/æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt/having two opposing feelings at the same time, or being uncertain about how you feel:
I felt very ambivalent about leaving home.
He has fairly ambivalent feelings towards his father.
an ambivalent attitude to exercise
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Doubt & ambivalence
- askance
- be in two minds idiom
- blow hot and cold idiom
- chary
- conflicted
- hem and haw idiom
- hum
- hum and haw idiom
- indecision
- indecisive
- insecure
- jury
- shilly-shally
- sit on the fence idiom
- straddle
- tentative
- the jury is (still) out idiom
- unclear
- wobble
- wobbly
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ambivalently
adverb uk/æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt.li/us/æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt.li/
ambivalence
noun [ U ] uk/æmˈbɪv.ə.ləns/us/æmˈbɪv.ə.ləns/
the state of feeling of being ambivalent:
her ambivalence towards men