Irresolute

3 definitions found

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

  Irresolute \Ir*res"o*lute\, a. [Pref. ir- not + resolute: cf. F.
     irr['e]solu, L. irresolutus not loosened.]
     Not resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to
     doubt or irresolution.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Weak and irresolute is man.              --Cowper.
  
     Syn: Wavering; vacillating; undetermined; undecided;
          unsettled; fickle; changeable; inconstant. --
          {Ir*res"o*lute*ly}, adv. -- {Ir*res"o*lute*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  irresolute
       adj 1: uncertain how to act or proceed; "the committee was timid
              and mediocre and irresolute" [ant: {resolute}]
       2: lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide
          quickly or firmly; "stood irresolute waiting for some
          inspiration" [syn: {hesitant}, {hesitating}]

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

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "irresolute":
     adrift, afloat, agnostic, alternating, ambiguous, ambitendent,
     ambivalent, amorphous, at loose ends, bland, capricious, chancy,
     changeable, changeful, changing, desultory, deviable, dicey, dizzy,
     double-minded, doubting, dubious, eccentric, equivocal, erratic,
     faltering, fast and loose, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle,
     fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, freakish,
     giddy, halfhearted, halting, hesitant, hesitating, impetuous,
     impulsive, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive,
     indemonstrable, infirm, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid,
     irregular, irresolved, irresponsible, mazy, mercurial,
     milk-and-water, milky, moody, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mushy,
     mutable, neutral, of two minds, polysemous, rambling, restless,
     roving, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty,
     shilly-shallying, shuffling, skeptical, spasmodic, spineless,
     tasteless, tentative, touch-and-go, unaccountable, uncertain,
     unconfirmable, uncontrolled, unconvinced, undecided, undependable,
     undetermined, undisciplined, undivinable, unfixed, unforeseeable,
     unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unreliable, unresolved,
     unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid,
     unsteadfast, unsteady, unsure, unverifiable, vacillating,
     vacillatory, vagrant, vapid, variable, vicissitudinary,
     vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, watery, wavering,
     wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbly