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Perplexing vs Ambivalent - What's the difference?

perplexing | ambivalent |

As adjectives the difference between perplexing and ambivalent

is that perplexing is confusing or puzzling while ambivalent is simultaneously]] experiencing or expressing [[oppose|opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.

As a verb perplexing

is .

perplexing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • confusing or puzzling
  • bewildering

    • Verb

    (head)

    • ambivalent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Simultaneously]] experiencing or expressing [[oppose, opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.
  • Alternately having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.

    • Synonyms

    * (simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing feelings) conflicted, uncertain, undecided, unresolved * (alternately feeling opposing feelings) vacillating, fluctuating, wavering

    Related terms

    () * ambiguous * ambivalence * ambivalently * equivalent