The term is also commonly used to refer to situations where ‘mixed feelings’ of a more general sort are experienced or where a person experiences uncertainty or indecisiveness concerning something.

Hey! Here is a really easy question for me. I should answer it!

Oh, but 10 people already did. I can’t really add much more to it.

But I’ll get 2 points, and a chance at 10 more and thumbs!!

But I have been on here too long. I was just going, and I am at work.

But I know this one. Even cooler, I know this one and didn’t hear and learn the word until I was 30.

But this is Homework Help. People are mean there when we give answers to homework….

ambi-

a Latin, prefix meaning “both” and “around”

valent-

a Latin, prefix meaning ability To Combine

You would then have Combining both

Which simply put means that something can be one way or the other.

Understand it like that and work from there.

All The Best.

EXAMPLE: “I would like to get married and have children, but my fiance is ambivalent about having children.”

The first is the same root used for ambidextrous meaning the ability to use either hand with equal dexterity.

Valent: the capacity of one person or thing to react with or affect another in some special way, as by attraction or the facilitation of a function or activity.

Q:” do you want to go to the mall?”

Direct answer: “yea, sure, when do we leave?”

Ambivalent answer: “i dont know, who else is going?”

Jane was ambivalent about having children…