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AMBIVALENT
Definition of AMBIVALENT
adjective
Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
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Where it comes from
Back-formation from ambivalence, from German Ambivalenz, from Latin ambi- (“in two ways”) + valeō (“be strong”); equivalent to ambi- + -valent. Compare ambivert.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AMBIVALENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 77 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 13, 2 June 2026.
Built from these letters
AMBIVALENT starts with A and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AABEILMNTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start AMBIVA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found AMBIVALENT?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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