ambivalent

Adjective Satellite

uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
- "was ambivalent about having children"

Adj

Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
Alternately being or having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.

Examples

His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent.

Origin / Etymology

Back-formation from ambivalence, from German Ambivalenz, from Latin ambi- (“in two ways”) + valeō (“be strong”); equivalent to ambi- + -valent.

Synonyms

conflicted, fluctuating, uncertain, undecided, unresolved, vacillating, wavering

Scrabble Score: 17

ambivalent: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
ambivalent: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ambivalent: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 22

ambivalent: valid Words With Friends Word