Vacillating

4 definitions found

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

  Vacillate \Vac"il*late\ (v[a^]s"[i^]l*l[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p.
     p. {Vacillated} (v[a^]s"[i^]l*l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Vacillating}.] [L. vacillare, vacillatum; cf. Skr. va[~n]c.]
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     1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to
        waver.


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              [A spheroid] is always liable to shift and
              vacillatefrom one axis to another.    --Paley.
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     2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or
        inconstant; to waver.
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     Syn: See {Fluctuate}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vacillating \Vac"il*la`ting\, a.
     Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. --Tennyson. --
     {Vac"il*la`ting*ly}, adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  vacillating
       adj : uncertain in purpose or action [syn: {vacillant}, {wavering}]

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

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "vacillating":
     adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, capricious, changeable,
     changeful, coquettish, desultory, deviable, dizzy, eccentric,
     erratic, faddish, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering,
     flighty, flirtatious, flitting, fluctuant, fluctuating,
     fluctuational, freakish, giddy, harmonic, impetuous, impulsive,
     inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, irregular,
     irresolute, irresponsible, libratory, light, mazy, mercurial,
     moody, nutational, oscillating, oscillatory, pendular, pendulating,
     pendulous, periodic, quicksilver, rambling, resonant, restless,
     roving, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shilly-shally,
     shilly-shallying, shuffling, skittish, spasmodic, spineless,
     toying, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable,
     undisciplined, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained,
     unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast,
     unsteady, vacillatory, vagrant, variable, versatile, vibratile,
     vibrating, vibratory, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile,
     wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical,
     wishy-washy, wobbly