Hesitating

4 definitions found

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

  Hesitate \Hes"i*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Hesitated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Hesitating}.] [L. haesitatus, p. p. of haesitare,
     intens. fr. haerere to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold
     fast. Cf. {Aghast}, {Gaze}, {Adhere}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in


        suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he
        hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often
        hesitate in forming a judgment. --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To stammer; to falter in speaking.
  
     Syn: To doubt; waver; scruple; deliberate; demur; falter;
          stammer.
          [1913 Webster]

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

  hesitating \hesitating\ adj.
     holding back because of doubt or lack of confidence.
  
     Syn: hesitant, indecisive.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hesitating
       adj : lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide
             quickly or firmly; "stood irresolute waiting for some
             inspiration" [syn: {hesitant}, {irresolute}]

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

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "hesitating":
     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