Faltering

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Faltering \Fal"ter*ing\, a.
     Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." --Milton. --
     n. Falter; halting; hesitation. -- {Fal"ter*ing*ly}, adv.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Falter \Fal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Faltered}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Faltering}.] [OE. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault.
     See {Fault}, v. & n.]
     1. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as,
        his tongue falters.
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              With faltering speech and visage incomposed.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. "He found his legs
        falter." --Wiseman.
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     3. To hesitate in purpose or action.
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              Ere her native king
              Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. --Shak.
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     4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said
        of the mind or of thought.
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              Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space
              and distance falters.                 --I. Taylor.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  faltering
       adj : unsteady in speech or action
       n : the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in
           his speech" [syn: {hesitation}, {waver}, {falter}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "faltering":
     ambling, balbutient, bashful, boggling, cautious, circumspect,
     claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate,
     demurring, diffident, easy, flagging, foot-dragging, gentle,
     gradual, halting, hesitant, hesitating, hobbled, hobbling, idle,
     indecisive, indolent, irresolute, jibbing, languid, languorous,
     lazy, leisurely, limping, lukewarm, lumbering, moderate, modest,
     poking, poky, qualmish, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, scrupling,
     scrupulous, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shuffling, shy, slack,
     slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow,
     slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving,
     slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped,
     sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, squeamish, staggering,
     stammering, sticking, stickling, straining, strolling, stumbling,
     stuttering, tentative, timid, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering,
     trudging, turtlelike, uncertain, unhurried, vacillatory, waddling,
     wavering, wobbly