[ UK /æmbˈɪvələnt/ ]
[ US /æmˈbɪvəɫənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
    was ambivalent about having children
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How To Use ambivalent In A Sentence

  • At the moment, the public has a rather ambivalent attitude toward science.
  • Mares which are in the ambivalent early stages of estrus or which are mistakenly in diestrus pose a clear safety threat in close quarters. TheHorse.com News
  • It was as impossible to be ambivalent about Diana as it is to be equivocal about going to war.
  • There is an ambivalent feeling towards rural workers.
  • Nations. yep, it's pretty quaint stuff, couched in terms of newness and normalcy, of foreigness and familiarity. it describes the music as modern and "swingy" and yet timeless, as being of universal appeal - they belong to everyone - and yet "from a single nationality." i wonder whether the universalist rhetoric was meant to appeal to non-jews or simply to jews ambivalent about their jewishness? or am i simply being naive about midcentury, metropolitan jewishness? it is interesting to me also that, apparently, zionist discourse had not yet divorced the term palestinian from any association with jewish heritage. Wayneandwax.com
  • Mr. Husain articulates a clear, unambivalent and positive assessment of the likely effects of globalization and liberalization on poverty.
  • He also said Mr O'Brien was ambivalent on the role of the banks connected with the consortium.
  • Banham called Los Angeles ‘autopia,’ but few contributors to Writing Los Angeles have an unambivalent relationship to its driving culture.
  • was ambivalent about having children
  • Such ambivalent cultures invariably breed an extraordinary sense of personal dignidad (deeg-nee-DAHD) or "dignity," and an unbounded need for this dignity to be respected, regardless of the cost to the individual, family members, friends or strangers. I would like to know about "The Culture"
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