Professional language producers can be expected to be ambivalent about clichés.
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Ambivalent
//æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt//
Synonyms for "ambivalent" (79 found)
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Strong matches (24)
Related words (39)
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Synonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
4 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesrelated to
13 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
46 translations across 25 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- հակասական adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- ոչ միանշանակ adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Bulgarian
2 entries- двойствен adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- противоречив adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Catalan
1 entries- ambivalent adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 矛盾 adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 矛盾 adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Czech
2 entries- ambivalentní adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- rozporuplný adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Dutch
2 entries- ambivalent adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- ambivalente adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Finnish
4 entries- ambivalentti adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- epäröivä adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- kaksijakoinen adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- ristiriitainen adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
French
1 entries- ambivalent adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
German
3 entries- ambivalent adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- doppelwertig adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- zwiespältig adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Hungarian
1 entries- ambivalens adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Ido
1 entries- ambivalenta adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Indonesian
4 entries- ambivalen adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- bimbang adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- dwimuka adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- ragu adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Italian
1 entries- ambivalente adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Japanese
1 entries- どっちつかず adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Korean
1 entries- 반대감정이 공존하는 adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Māori
3 entries- ngākaurua adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- rangirua adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- whēangaanga adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Polish
1 entries- ambiwalentny adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Portuguese
1 entries- ambivalente adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Russian
2 entries- дво́йственный adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- противоречи́вый adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Slovak
2 entries- ambivalentný adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- rozporuplný adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Spanish
1 entries- ambivalente adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Swedish
2 entries- ambivalent adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- kluven adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Thai
1 entries- สองจิตสองใจ adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Turkish
4 entries- ikircikli adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- ikircimli adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- kararsız adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
- mütereddit adj (experiencing or expressing opposing feelings)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
I'm ambivalent about the itinerary for our overseas trip which my brother has drawn up.
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I thought that first officer Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation was a handsome man, but a homestay Japanese girl student Noriko was ambivalent.
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He is genuinely ambivalent about running for president again.
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