hesitating as an adjective: - 1
hesitating
adjective
1 hesitating
Lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly.
synonym: hesitant.
Roget 605:
irresolute,
infirm of purpose,
double-minded,
half-hearted;
undecided,
unresolved,
undetermined;
shilly-shally;
fidgety,
tremulous;
hesitating
etc.
v.;
off one's balance;
at a loss
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
vacillating
etc.
v.;
unsteady
etc.
(changeable)
149;
unsteadfast†,
fickle,
without ballast;
capricious
etc.
608;
volatile,
frothy;
light,
lightsome,
light-minded;
giddy;
fast and loose.
weak,
feeble-minded,
frail;
timid,
wimpish,
wimpy
etc.
860;
cowardly
etc.
862;
dough-faced [U.S.];
facile;
pliant
etc.
(soft)
324;
unable to say 'no',
easy-going revocable,
reversible.
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noun
Roget 605:
irresolution,
infirmity of purpose,
indecision;
indetermination,
undetermination†;
unsettlement;
uncertainty
etc.
475;
demur,
suspense;
hesitating
etc.
v.,
hesitation,
hesitancy;
vacillation;
changeableness
etc.
149;
fluctuation;
alternation
etc.
(oscillation)
314;
caprice
etc.
608.
fickleness,
levity,
legerete [Fr.];
pliancy
etc.
(softness)
324;
weakness;
timidity
etc.
860;
cowardice
etc.
862;
half measures.
waverer,
ass between two bundles of hay;
shuttlecock,
butterfly;
wimp;
doughface [U.S.].
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Moby thesaurus: agnostic, ambiguous, balbutient, bashful, boggling, capricious, cautious, chancy, changeable, demurring, dicey, diffident, doubting, equivocal, erratic, faltering, fickle, halting, hesitant, incalculable, indecisive, indemonstrable, irresolute, jibbing, modest, polysemous, qualmish, scrupling, scrupulous, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shy, skeptical, squeamish, stammering, sticking, stickling, straining, stumbling, stuttering, tentative, timid, touch-and-go, unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable, unconvinced, undivinable, unforeseeable, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unsure, unverifiable, variable, wavering, whimsical ... show more.
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