Sunday, April 19, 2009

word a day#9

ambivalent |amˈbivələnt|adjectivehaving mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone : some loved her, some hated her, few were ambivalent about her | an ambivalent attitude to terrorism.DERIVATIVESambivalence |ømˈbɪvələns| nounambivalently |ømˈbɪvələntli| adverbORIGIN early 20th cent.: from ambivalence (from German Ambivalenz), on the pattern ofequivalent.

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