mixed feelings
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Sentiments or opinions regarding a person, situation, or other matter which are conflicted and cause perplexity or confusion.
Example Sentences
- "I, for one, regarded this master-at-arms with mixed feelings of detestation, pity, admiration, and something opposed to enmity."
- "[A]ll Sabbath observances, like a Scottish accent, strike in me mixed feelings, grateful and the reverse."
- "Arriving at Paddington, Mike stood on the platform, waiting for his box to emerge from the luggage-van, with mixed feelings of gloom and excitement."
- "Last week Madison (pop. 67,500) learned, with mixed feelings, that it would get a morning paper and lose an afternoon one."
- "I had mixed feelings about the Sonata in F (Op. 54) — a departure from the printed program, noted in an insert — in which a deftly managed, elegantly characterized first movement was wedded to a tumultuous but unfocused Allegretto."