Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Word of the Day

The Word of the Day for Wednesday, March 14th 2012 is ambivalent:

Part of speech: adjective
1. having ”mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable to choose between two (usually opposing) courses of action: The whole family was ambivalent about the move to the suburbs. She is regarded as a morally ambivalent character in the play.
 
2. Psychology . of or pertaining to the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action, simultaneously drawing him or her in opposite directions.

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