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| hesitate
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hesitant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective hesitant has 1 sense
- hesitant(s = adj.all) hesitating - lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly; Array Derived forms noun hesitance1, noun hesitancy2, noun hesitancy1, verb hesitate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
hesitant, a. [L. haesitans, p. pr. of haesitare: cf. F. hésitant. See Hesitate.].
- Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating. [1913 Webster]
- Unready in speech. Baxter. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hesitant, adj. hesitating; irresolute.
Derivative
hesitance n. hesitancy n. hesitantly adv.
THESAURUS
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
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