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: September 9, 2024
\am-BIV-uh-lunt\ adjective
What It Means
Someone described as ambivalent has or displays very different feelings (such as love and hate) about someone or something at the same time.
// Aya was ambivalent about starting her first year away at college—excited for the new opportunities that awaited but sad to leave her friends and family back home.
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