Ambivalent
adjective
Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
She has ambivalent feelings about her job.
Often appears as...
- ambivalent about
- ambivalent feelings
adjective
Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
She has ambivalent feelings about her job.
Often appears as...
- ambivalent about
- ambivalent feelings
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Use 'ambivalent' when context shows someone has doubts or is torn between different opinions.
Even after the discussion, I remained ambivalent about the decision.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Indifferent
'Ambivalent' suggests active conflicting feelings, not a lack of interest or care.
I'm ambivalent about the move, both excited and scared, not indifferent.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Tug
Indicates a struggle between emotions or thoughts, often leading to uncertainty.
She felt ambivalent, equally drawn to stay for love and leave for career.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Use 'ambivalent' when context shows someone has doubts or is torn between different opinions.
Even after the discussion, I remained ambivalent about the decision.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Indifferent
'Ambivalent' suggests active conflicting feelings, not a lack of interest or care.
I'm ambivalent about the move, both excited and scared, not indifferent.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Tug
Indicates a struggle between emotions or thoughts, often leading to uncertainty.
She felt ambivalent, equally drawn to stay for love and leave for career.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Use 'ambivalent' when context shows someone has doubts or is torn between different opinions.
Even after the discussion, I remained ambivalent about the decision.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Indifferent
'Ambivalent' suggests active conflicting feelings, not a lack of interest or care.
I'm ambivalent about the move, both excited and scared, not indifferent.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Tug
Indicates a struggle between emotions or thoughts, often leading to uncertainty.
She felt ambivalent, equally drawn to stay for love and leave for career.
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A roadmap to end aging PIPE...
They'll be wrong, but that actually won't matter too much. And finally, of course, I think it's fair to say that a large part of the reason why the public is so ambivalent about aging now is the global trance I spoke about earlier, the coping strategy. That will be history at this point, because it will no longer be possible to believe that aging is inevitable in humans,
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How to spot a liar -...
average married couple you're going to live your spouse in one out of every ten interactions now you may think that's bad if you're unmarried that number drops to three lying's complex it's woven into the fabric of our daily and our business lives we're deeply ambivalent about the truth we parse it
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Meet the dazzling flying...
What can you do with all this surplus? The thing to notice is that it is highly symmetric. As a result, it is ambivalent to orientation. This gives it an extraordinary capability. It can move anywhere it wants in space irrespective of where it is facing and even of how it is rotating.
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How to spot a liar PIPE...
Now, you may think that's bad. If you're unmarried, that number drops to three. Lying's complex. It's woven into the fabric of our daily and our business lives. We're deeply ambivalent about the truth. We parse it out on an as-needed basis, sometimes for very good reasons,
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Paola Antonelli: Why I...
maybe it's my own reflection, I've never been able to do anything but crashing cars and shooting prostitutes and pimps. So it was not very constructive. So, I'm making fun of it, but we discussed this for so many days. You have no idea. And to this day, I am ambivalent,
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Cannibal Bugs and...
care and so politicians correspond to what people think and so that's why it's very important to have these movements because they do affect politics so what I'm getting at is in what do you see today we see in there's kind of this general sort of ambivalent attitude
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The price of a "clean"...
And they are deciding, as soon as possible, whether the content stays on the platform -- ignore; or disappears -- delete. But not every decision is as clear as the decision about a child-abuse video. What about controversial content, ambivalent content,
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Michael Tilson Thomas:...
there was enormous subtle potential of representing human emotions. And in fact, as man began to understand more his complex and ambivalent nature, harmony grew more complex to reflect it. Turns out it was capable of expressing emotions
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Coya Paz Brownrigg: The...
with life, with death, and with each other. And whenever anyone tells me a ghost story, I ask them two questions. "What do you think this ghost wanted?" And second, because most people are ambivalent
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Why I have coffee with...
I was sure that the driver was a racist. When I got home, I was very ambivalent about my experience. On the one hand, I really liked Ingolf.
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A roadmap to end aging PIPE...
They'll be wrong, but that actually won't matter too much. And finally, of course, I think it's fair to say that a large part of the reason why the public is so ambivalent about aging now is the global trance I spoke about earlier, the coping strategy. That will be history at this point, because it will no longer be possible to believe that aging is inevitable in humans,
Video examples
How to spot a liar -...
average married couple you're going to live your spouse in one out of every ten interactions now you may think that's bad if you're unmarried that number drops to three lying's complex it's woven into the fabric of our daily and our business lives we're deeply ambivalent about the truth we parse it
Video examples
Meet the dazzling flying...
What can you do with all this surplus? The thing to notice is that it is highly symmetric. As a result, it is ambivalent to orientation. This gives it an extraordinary capability. It can move anywhere it wants in space irrespective of where it is facing and even of how it is rotating.
Video examples
How to spot a liar PIPE...
Now, you may think that's bad. If you're unmarried, that number drops to three. Lying's complex. It's woven into the fabric of our daily and our business lives. We're deeply ambivalent about the truth. We parse it out on an as-needed basis, sometimes for very good reasons,
Video examples
Paola Antonelli: Why I...
maybe it's my own reflection, I've never been able to do anything but crashing cars and shooting prostitutes and pimps. So it was not very constructive. So, I'm making fun of it, but we discussed this for so many days. You have no idea. And to this day, I am ambivalent,
Video examples
Cannibal Bugs and...
care and so politicians correspond to what people think and so that's why it's very important to have these movements because they do affect politics so what I'm getting at is in what do you see today we see in there's kind of this general sort of ambivalent attitude
Video examples
The price of a "clean"...
And they are deciding, as soon as possible, whether the content stays on the platform -- ignore; or disappears -- delete. But not every decision is as clear as the decision about a child-abuse video. What about controversial content, ambivalent content,
Video examples
Michael Tilson Thomas:...
there was enormous subtle potential of representing human emotions. And in fact, as man began to understand more his complex and ambivalent nature, harmony grew more complex to reflect it. Turns out it was capable of expressing emotions
Video examples
Coya Paz Brownrigg: The...
with life, with death, and with each other. And whenever anyone tells me a ghost story, I ask them two questions. "What do you think this ghost wanted?" And second, because most people are ambivalent
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Why I have coffee with...
I was sure that the driver was a racist. When I got home, I was very ambivalent about my experience. On the one hand, I really liked Ingolf.
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Colin Hanks
American Actor
No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.
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Roxane Gay
American Writer
I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude toward feminism. So what I can do is, in ways that are appropriate, advocate for feminism and help the students learn what feminism is about.
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Shabana Azmi
Indian Actress
Some parents are ambivalent about vaccination after reading misinformed pieces and watching misleading videos on a popular mobile chat application. By electing to avoid vaccinating their child, they are denying their child's right to be protected against these severe diseases.
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Ken Liu
American Writer
The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays a dynamic world in transition, where the redistribution of power is messy, morally ambivalent, and only lurches toward more justice.
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Jeremy Wade
Even without the creatures living in it, water is dangerous. We have an ambivalent relationship with water. It's the source of life, it's the source of food, but it's also a source of death, if you're not careful.
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RM
Korean Musician
Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.
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Geoffrey Rush
Australian Actor
As an actor, I'm ambivalent because I'm focused on the other person and what they're giving me, what I need to be giving them, and what the character is thinking.
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Etgar Keret
Israeli Writer
Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.
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James McGreevey
American Politician
Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.
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Louis Theroux
British Director
There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.
Quote examples
Colin Hanks
American Actor
No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.
Quote examples
Roxane Gay
American Writer
I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude toward feminism. So what I can do is, in ways that are appropriate, advocate for feminism and help the students learn what feminism is about.
Quote examples
Shabana Azmi
Indian Actress
Some parents are ambivalent about vaccination after reading misinformed pieces and watching misleading videos on a popular mobile chat application. By electing to avoid vaccinating their child, they are denying their child's right to be protected against these severe diseases.
Quote examples
Ken Liu
American Writer
The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays a dynamic world in transition, where the redistribution of power is messy, morally ambivalent, and only lurches toward more justice.
Quote examples
Jeremy Wade
Even without the creatures living in it, water is dangerous. We have an ambivalent relationship with water. It's the source of life, it's the source of food, but it's also a source of death, if you're not careful.
Quote examples
RM
Korean Musician
Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.
Quote examples
Geoffrey Rush
Australian Actor
As an actor, I'm ambivalent because I'm focused on the other person and what they're giving me, what I need to be giving them, and what the character is thinking.
Quote examples
Etgar Keret
Israeli Writer
Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.
Quote examples
James McGreevey
American Politician
Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.
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Louis Theroux
British Director
There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.
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