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ambivalent

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Editorial note

But not everyone has to vote on every comment on a site like reddit, so the ambivalent majority is already ignored.

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Quick take

Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.

adjective

Alternately being or having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ambivalent.

Example sentences

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But not everyone has to vote on every comment on a site like reddit, so the ambivalent majority is already ignored.

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Even worse, the leadership in these organizations are ambivalent at best at assessing the impact.

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Secondly, one of the big problems that quadratic voting addresses is when an ambivalent majority outweighs a minority simply because everyone votes.

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I've been using NW for about three years now and am deeply ambivalent about them for similar reasons...

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Your points are fair, and are a bit part of why I feel so ambivalent about technical interviews.

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I don't know of a single person who is even ambivalent towards the process of buying a car.

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I'm more ambivalent about access to source as long as there is good documentation and debugging tools.

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Patterson is more ambivalent about HFT than Kovacs, and does a good job of explaining the Core Wars phenomenon of modern trading from '98 to the mid-'00s.

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To me it looks like they're burning down a simple product people love -- to go work on a bloated product people are at best ambivalent about.

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It is because of our web-centricity that we are so ambivalent about ChromeOS.

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Yeah, I'm ambivalent about this point, but I don't outright reject it.

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She laments how comfortable she is with her status accredited largely to Stanford, and is ambivalent to whether she wants her child to drink from the same source.

Quote examples

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I'm pretty ambivalent about the picture I've gotten of Uber's management but would generally advise against labeling people we don't really know as "sociopaths".

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PG said it best: "Better to make a few users love you than a lot ambivalent."[1] One of the best ways to find out if people love what you're building is to ask them to pay for it.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use ambivalent in a sentence?

But not everyone has to vote on every comment on a site like reddit, so the ambivalent majority is already ignored.

What does ambivalent mean?

Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.

What part of speech is ambivalent?

ambivalent is commonly used as adjective.