unambivalent

[ uhn-am-biv-uh-luhnt ]

adjective

1. not ambivalent; definite; certain.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unambivalent¹

1940–45; un- ¹ + ambivalent ( def )

Example Sentences

A senior United Arab Emirates official called on Monday for "codified and unambivalent" commitments from the United States to its security, adding it had no interest in "choosing sides".

From Reuters

"Yet it is vital that we find a way to ensure that we can rely on this relationship for decades to come, through clear, codified and unambivalent commitments," he added in a speech delivered to the Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate.

From Reuters

Lahey credits the state's Republican governor, Phil Scott, who has been "unambivalent about pro-vax messaging."

From Salon

Even as Omicron has torn through the country in the final weeks of the year, upending everything, setting case records, canceling flights, causing long lines at testing sites, threatening a smooth reopening of school in January, returning us to the devotional of the propane heat lamp, it is hard not to feel for New York an appreciation that is snobbish, imperious, unambivalent.

From New York Times

“Happiness,” he wrote, “involves the enthusiastic and unambivalent acceptance of activities or relationships that are not the best that might possibly be obtained.”

From New York Times