Hesitant

3 definitions found

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

  Hesitant \Hes"i*tant\, a. [L. haesitans, p. pr. of haesitare:
     cf. F. h['e]sitant. See {Hesitate}.]
     1. Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.
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     2. Unready in speech. --Baxter.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hesitant
       adj 1: lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide
              quickly or firmly; "stood irresolute waiting for some
              inspiration" [syn: {hesitating}, {irresolute}]
       2: acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence;
          "a groping effort to understand" [syn: {groping}]

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

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "hesitant":
     afraid, agnostic, ambiguous, ambivalent, averse, backward, bashful,
     boggling, canny, capricious, careful, cautious, chancy, changeable,
     circumspect, deliberate, demurring, dicey, diffident, discreet,
     dithering, doubting, equivocal, erratic, faltering, fickle,
     fluctuating, gingerly, guarded, halting, heedful, hesitating,
     incalculable, indecisive, indefinite, indemonstrable, indisposed,
     irresolute, jibbing, judicious, leaving out nothing, loath,
     mindful, modest, noncommittal, of two minds, on guard,
     overlooking no possibility, pause, pawky, politic, polysemous,
     prudent, qualmish, regardful, reluctant, safe, scrupling,
     scrupulous, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shy, skeptical,
     slow to act, squeamish, stammering, sticking, stickling, straining,
     stuttering, tentative, thorough, timid, touch-and-go,
     unaccountable, unadventurous, uncertain, uncommunicative,
     unconfirmable, unconvinced, undaring, undecided, undivinable,
     uneager, unenterprising, unforeseeable, unpersuaded, unprecipitate,
     unpredictable, unprovable, unresolved, unsettled, unsure,
     unverifiable, unwilling, vacillating, vacillatory, variable,
     wavering, whimsical, wobbly