Someone who communicates by waving.

The act of pausing uncertainly.

synonyms: falter, faltering, hesitation.

Polish: zająknienie, zacięcie, zająknięcie

The act of moving back and forth.

synonyms: flicker, flutter.

Dutch: flutter

Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness.

synonyms: hesitate, waffle.

Roget 485: disbelieve, discredit; not believe etc. 484; misbelieve^†; refuse to admit etc. (dissent) 489; refuse to believe etc. (incredulity) 487.    doubt; be doubtful etc. (uncertain) 475; doubt the truth of; be skeptical as to etc. adj.; diffide^†; distrust, mistrust; suspect, smoke, scent, smell a rat; have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts, suspicions; have one's doubts.    demure, stick at, pause, hesitate, scruple; stop to consider, waver.    hang in suspense, hang in doubt.    throw doubt upon, raise a question; bring in, call in question; question, challenge, dispute; deny etc. 536; cavil; cause a doubt, raise a doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion; ergotize^†.    startle, stagger; shake one's faith, shake one's belief, stagger one's faith, stagger one's belief.    ... show more

Dutch: aarzelen, dralen, schromen, talmen, treuzelen, twijfelen, weifelen

Be unsure or weak.

synonym: falter.

Move hesitatingly, as if about to give way.

synonym: falter.

Move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern.

synonyms: fluctuate, vacillate.

Roget 607: change one's mind, change one's intention, change one's purpose, change one's note; abjure, renounce; withdraw from etc. (relinquish) 624; waver, vacillate; wheel round, turn round, veer round; turn a pirouette; go over from one side to another, pass from one side to another, change from one side to another, skip from one side to another; go to the rightabout; box the compass, shift one's ground, go upon another tack.    apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke; rescind etc. (abrogate) 756; recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round to an opinion; crawfish [U.S.], crawl [U.S.].    draw in one's horns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek; swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come back return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf etc. (repent) 950.    trim, shuffle, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, coquet, be on the fence, straddle, bold with the hare but run with the hounds; nager entre deux eaux [Fr.]; wait to see how the cat jumps, wait to see how the wind blows.    ... show more

Move back and forth very rapidly.

synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, quiver.

Roget 149: fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter, shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble^†, turn and turn about, ring the changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and change about; waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute) 605; oscillate etc. 314; vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes; alternate; have as man phases as the moon.    ... show more

Dutch: flakkeren

Sway from side to side.

synonym: weave.

Give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency.

synonym: quaver.