What is another word for ambivalent?
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[ ambˈɪvələnt], [ ambˈɪvələnt], [ a_m_b_ˈɪ_v_ə_l_ə_n_t]Table of Contents
Similar words for ambivalent:- all (adjective)
- borderline (adjective)
- conflicting (adjective)
- equivocal (adjective)
- irresolute (adjective)
- motiveless (adjective)
- on the fence (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- timid (adjective)
- uncertain (adjective)
- undecided (adjective)
- willy-nilly (adjective)
- ambivalent (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Ambivalent:
adj.
•all (adjective) •borderline (adjective) •conflicting (adjective)- debatable,
- irresolute,
- vacillating,
- inconclusive,
- fluctuating,
- contradictory,
- mixed,
- hesitant,
- unresolved,
- warring,
- opposed,
- wavering,
- clashing.
- vague,
- muzzy,
- with mixed feelings,
- unexplicit,
- Amphibological,
- clear as mud,
- double-entendre,
- double entendre,
- hazy,
- misleading.
- infirm,
- dillydallying,
- Flitting,
- Shilly-shally,
- weak,
- watery,
- volatile,
- erratic,
- halfhearted,
- tentative,
- impulsive,
- capricious,
- shifty,
- indecisive,
- insipid,
- changeable,
- double-minded,
- shy,
- undependable,
- unwilling,
- shrinking,
- fly-by-night,
- fickle,
- irresponsible,
- yellow,
- inconsistent,
- spineless.
- flighty,
- wandering,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- irregular,
- reasonless,
- spastic,
- chancy,
- haphazard,
- rambling,
- random,
- sporadic,
- fanciful,
- Systemless,
- careless,
- arbitrary,
- fleeting,
- adrift,
- unmethodical,
- nonsystematic,
- motiveless.
- equivocal,
- undecided,
- dithering,
- unassertive,
- willy-nilly,
- uncertain,
- unassured,
- borderline,
- on the fence,
- timid,
- pendent.
- more browbeaten,
- un-assertive,
- most cowering,
- having cold feet,
- co-wed,
- re tiring,
- more unnerved,
- more badgered,
- most milquetoast,
- most bullied,
- more unassertive,
- de mure,
- most unassured,
- unnerved,
- most badgered,
- re-tiring,
- most trembling,
- un assured,
- more milquetoast,
- un assertive,
- most cowed,
- most daunted,
- more cowering,
- un-nerved,
- more daunted,
- co wed,
- un nerved,
- more trembling,
- more unassured,
- de-mure,
- most browbeaten,
- more cowed,
- more bullied,
- most unnerved,
- un-assured,
- sub missive.
n.
•ambivalent (noun)v.
•Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- doubtful.
- shifting,
- available,
- specter,
- merry-go-round,
- busyness,
- eclecticist,
- roving,
- loaded,
- unconnected,
- antagonistic,
- assortment,
- multi-colored,
- temperamental,
- shadow,
- frail,
- fuss,
- cagy,
- unprompted,
- multicoloured,
- combine,
- jaundiced,
- circuitous,
- smashed,
- white-livered,
- bear in mind,
- gust,
- boast,
- probationary,
- disorderly,
- interracial,
- deceitful,
- goal,
- weave,
- mismated,
- hit-or-miss,
- flub,
- provisional,
- orphic,
- vagabond,
- fugitive,
- dubiety,
- washy,
- astatine,
- nervous,
- debate,
- death,
- haphazardly,
- inappropriate,
- slipshod,
- undirected,
- run afoul,
- subtlety,
- slopped,
- unemployed people,
- puzzled,
- cautious,
- mess up,
- unattached,
- vagrant,
- bluster,
- broken,
- touch-and-go,
- fluff,
- heed,
- multicolored,
- cumulate,
- stop,
- doubt,
- knotty,
- unreadable,
- inquiring,
- indecipherable,
- focus,
- shadiness,
- ft,
- groundwork,
- cockeyed,
- louse up,
- confounding,
- judgment,
- commission,
- quicksilver,
- tone,
- digressive,
- screw up,
- bollocks up,
- yellowed,
- in question,
- afloat,
- amphibian,
- feeble,
- humming,
- black eye,
- wooly-minded,
- wide-ranging,
- indiscriminately,
- model,
- flat,
- yellow-bellied,
- indecisiveness,
- iffy,
- bump,
- assailable,
- disjointed,
- fellate,
- turn over,
- waffle,
- mystifying,
- shadowy,
- bobble,
- woolly,
- marginal,
- topsy-turvy,
- dodgy,
- yellowness,
- mystical,
- madcap,
- senseless,
- terminal,
- tincture,
- light,
- external oblique muscle,
- easy,
- double-faced,
- askant,
- wanton,
- vacillant,
- guidance,
- carousel,
- intellect,
- battle,
- doubting,
- setback,
- pother,
- momentaneous,
- chemical compound,
- flutter,
- incertitude,
- give,
- varicoloured,
- inscrutable,
- scatterbrained,
- superfluous,
- mentally ill,
- brainish,
- calico,
- mystic,
- miscellanea,
- fuck up,
- management,
- decrepit,
- fuzzy,
- puff,
- spoil,
- bumble,
- funny,
- deep,
- fluid,
- squint-eyed,
- militant,
- chickenhearted,
- nous,
- vagabondage,
- flavourless,
- bemused,
- botch up,
- potpourri,
- vapid,
- freakish,
- belligerent,
- disbelieving,
- periphrastic,
- quiver,
- ride,
- careen,
- gutless,
- oddment,
- irresolution,
- planless,
- lactating,
- animal foot,
- peregrine,
- perilous,
- cagey,
- baffled,
- undecipherable,
- belief,
- fishy,
- pile up,
- ambidextrous,
- arbitrarily,
- mutually exclusive,
- skeptical,
- pudding stone,
- waste,
- heart-to-heart,
- weakly,
- causeless,
- refutable,
- maverick,
- fuddled,
- lily-livered,
- suck,
- human foot,
- flyaway,
- multicolour,
- focusing,
- traffic circle,
- spasmodic,
- ending,
- mixed bag,
- vibrate,
- randomly,
- mobile,
- hawthorn,
- plight,
- hugger-mugger,
- blotto,
- sundry,
- nonplused,
- unfitting,
- multi-colour,
- pointless,
- multifarious,
- creative thinker,
- fallible,
- falter,
- muddled,
- listen,
- rotary,
- bland,
- difference,
- lamp shade,
- pastiche,
- judgement,
- ball up,
- heighten,
- seat,
- close,
- go down on,
- sidelong,
- driving,
- rickety,
- obstinate,
- impetuous,
- double-dealing,
- fight,
- garbled,
- foot up,
- syncretistical,
- flavorless,
- bollix,
- excursive,
- meandering,
- salmagundi,
- shimmy,
- notional,
- fundament,
- undefendable,
- mistrustful,
- thrum,
- refinement,
- janus-faced,
- at odds,
- shadowiness,
- dispute,
- pendant,
- tearaway,
- tad,
- even,
- span,
- disoriented,
- gasconade,
- pied,
- undefended,
- afford,
- at random,
- befuddled,
- lost,
- perverse,
- tout,
- elusive,
- brag,
- empire,
- hedge,
- spirit,
- straggling,
- shock,
- bungle,
- crocked,
- fill in,
- subject,
- metrical unit,
- way,
- base,
- nebulous,
- untrusting,
- capable,
- unsealed,
- flavour,
- parti-color,
- skittish,
- cryptic,
- atypical,
- unreciprocated,
- unprovoked,
- float,
- wondering,
- moisture,
- ironical,
- squinty,
- chandelier,
- notion,
- precariousness,
- stiff,
- instruction,
- coalesced,
- tint,
- parlous,
- wry,
- scattered,
- blast,
- surface,
- lukewarm,
- amass,
- planetary,
- faltering,
- vary,
- sprawling,
- shove along,
- engagement,
- sluttish,
- remainder,
- unsafe,
- blow out,
- pie-eyed,
- discursive,
- abdominal external oblique muscle,
- ill-defined,
- whirligig,
- straggly,
- provisionary,
- sloppy,
- nomadic,
- iridescent,
- touch,
- disconnected,
- ii,
- occult,
- asquint,
- shade off,
- substructure,
- uncongenial,
- dubiousness,
- deceptive,
- squiffy,
- sit around,
- every which way,
- foggy,
- composite plant,
- foundation,
- head-in-the-clouds,
- predicament,
- shove off,
- hoof,
- at sea,
- speculative,
- multi-color,
- sapless,
- outdoors,
- blurry,
- piebald,
- struggle,
- pes,
- posture,
- head,
- jejune,
- opened,
- dissonant,
- spread,
- tough,
- convulsive,
- unbelieving,
- plastered,
- focal point,
- seethe,
- accumulate,
- indeterminate,
- particoloured,
- thinker,
- impression,
- out-of-doors,
- circumlocutious,
- unsuited,
- untenanted,
- border,
- consider,
- fused,
- shot,
- hover,
- scandalmongering,
- flap,
- floating,
- 2,
- multi-coloured,
- tactile sensation,
- heterogenous,
- oscillate,
- quizzical,
- mishandle,
- winding,
- babysit,
- hotheaded,
- wonky,
- dicey,
- colonial,
- misty,
- wasted,
- tight,
- vaunt,
- charge,
- disordered,
- boundary line,
- suspect,
- pixilated,
- dilemma,
- counseling,
- besotted,
- yellowish,
- doubtfulness,
- invertebrate,
- dependent,
- open up,
- terminate,
- beware,
- spooky,
- uncertainness,
- particolored,
- baby-sit,
- syncretical,
- imperfect,
- imaginary,
- panel,
- diffident,
- unfastened,
- sit down,
- soaked,
- leg it,
- mixed-up,
- undefined,
- bollix up,
- drift,
- regardless,
- reeking,
- opinion,
- pick,
- shrinkage,
- circle,
- assorted,
- botch,
- xanthous,
- fainthearted,
- temporary,
- multicolor,
- tactual sensation,
- building complex,
- guerrilla,
- deliberate,
- at variance,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- ill-sorted,
- slapdash,
- changeful,
- clear,
- multilateral,
- coggle,
- woolly-headed,
- lampshade,
- varicolored,
- double-tongued,
- unfold,
- at a loss,
- vacillation,
- muck up,
- unpredictable,
- flitter,
- remnant,
- counsel,
- pose,
- chatoyant,
- directionless,
- delimitation,
- leery,
- unreliable,
- infantry,
- contrastive,
- soused,
- brumous,
- sozzled,
- illogical,
- muff,
- two-faced,
- bollocks,
- gas,
- idea,
- consolidated,
- unsound,
- nuance,
- smorgasbord,
- candid,
- psyche,
- confounded,
- difference of opinion,
- shift,
- complicated,
- wispy,
- focussing,
- squander,
- guerilla,
- deepen,
- devious,
- flavor,
- centering,
- flicker,
- cryptical,
- hesitate,
- swash,
- confutable,
- chanceful,
- buzz,
- reversal,
- foul up,
- reverse,
- spectre,
- exposed,
- snow,
- receptive,
- spread out,
- loose,
- smell,
- deuce,
- mindless,
- shady,
- fumble,
- miscellany,
- nicety,
- overt,
- quaver,
- bleary,
- momentary,
- painted,
- burn out,
- closing,
- fluctuation,
- invertebrate foot,
- coke,
- amalgamate,
- secret,
- unaccented,
- carrousel,
- faint-hearted,
- squint,
- fluky,
- tizzy,
- inquisitive,
- musculus obliquus externus abdominis,
- wooly,
- mixture,
- out or keeping,
- hoof it,
- steering,
- sensationalistic,
- thornless,
- be adrift,
- infringe,
- baffling,
- flukey,
- unorthodox,
- second,
- blind drunk,
- hesitation,
- blurred,
- contravene,
- look,
- atomic number 85,
- finish,
- dry,
- last,
- wraith,
- gather,
- obscure,
- understructure,
- variety,
- savourless,
- unrequited,
- transnational,
- insurgent,
- take care,
- destruction,
- coordination compound,
- intuitive feeling,
- oblivion,
- sloshed,
- mazed,
- shoot a line,
- cease,
- brain,
- spook,
- oblique case,
- nose candy,
- syncretistic,
- pissed,
- faint,
- otiose,
- problematical,
- tilt,
- tepid,
- mottled,
- range,
- counselling,
- chicken,
- variegate,
- upset,
- explosive,
- intensify,
- feel,
- addled,
- touch sensation,
- war-ridden,
- metrical foot,
- contrary,
- open air,
- ghost,
- shaky,
- conclusion,
- confutative,
- savorless,
- dim.
- conflicting,
- many-sided,
- hedging,
- evasive,
- composite,
- mutable,
- ambagious,
- paradoxical,
- suspicious,
- miscellaneous,
- conflict,
- oblique,
- pluralistic,
- jumbled,
- indefinite,
- aimless,
- purposeless,
- self-contradictory,
- Mingled,
- compounded,
- fifty-fifty,
- contrasting,
- at loose ends,
- unemployed,
- uncommitted,
- amalgamated,
- multifaceted,
- problematic,
- wishy-washy,
- conglomerate,
- waffling,
- indiscriminate,
- ironic,
- unoccupied,
- multiracial,
- unanswered,
- motley,
- unclear,
- eclectic,
- multinational,
- open,
- tergiversating,
- betwixt and between,
- mercurial,
- open to question,
- in two minds,
- Willy nilly,
- patchy,
- shilly-shallying,
- mind,
- compound,
- namby-pamby,
- promiscuous,
- dappled,
- fence-straddling,
- heterogeneous,
- end,
- drifting,
- unsettled,
- fluctuate,
- roundabout,
- blended,
- havering,
- amphibious,
- at,
- duplicitous,
- Amphibolic,
- medley,
- incompatible,
- half-and-half,
- varied,
- discrepant,
- hesitating,
- unsolved,
- complex,
- syncretic,
- fence-sitting,
- undetermined,
- intricate,
- unstable,
- ambitendent,
- circumlocutory,
- pending,
- Amphibolous,
- incongruous,
- antinomic,
- of two minds,
- oxymoronic,
- combined,
- scrambled,
- in doubt.
Paraphrases for Ambivalent:
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Independent
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Adjective
inconsistent, controversial, vague.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
ambiguous, contradictory, mixed, conflicting, self-contradictory, equivocal, paradoxical, double-edged.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Ambivalent:
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adj.
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conflicting
secure, determined, undoubted, sure, settled, certain, clear, unequivocal, definite, decided, resolved, unquestionable.
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Other antonyms:
resolute, unquestioning, unambivalent.
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conflicting