AMBIVALENT Definition & Meaning

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ambivalent

[ am-biv-uh-luhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

having mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable to choose between two (usually opposing) courses of action:
The whole family was ambivalent about the move to the suburbs.
She is regarded as a morally ambivalent character in the play.
Psychology. of or relating to the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action, simultaneously drawing that individual in opposite directions.

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Kilmer was exacting about his work, ambivalent about fame and disinclined to spend much time with the press.

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I want to ask a "Starstruck" question because you have spoken before about the ambivalent and tense relationship we all have with the rom-com.

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I had been so ambivalent about being from Malibu that I tended to fudge when asked where I grew up.

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“I was then and I am now ambivalent about Jimmy Carter. He is a man of truly admirable qualities, but also of some glaring shortcomings,” he said.

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Trump himself has made no such commitments, suggesting instead a more ambivalent stance.

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