Synonyms for Hesitant:

• adj.

  •afraid (adjective)
  • un eager,
  • un-happier,
  • un willing,
  • un happiest,
  • un-willing,
  • un happier,
  • un-eager,
  • more uneager,
  • dis inclined,
  • dis-inclined,
  • unhappy,
  • un happy,
  • un-happiest,
  • most uneager,
  • un-happy.
  •all (adjective)
  • hesitant.
  •ambivalent (adjective)
  • more clashing,
  • more fluctuating,
  • most opposed,
  • most fluctuating,
  • in-conclusive,
  • in conclusive,
  • most clashing.
  •averse (adjective)
  • illdisposed,
  • un friendlier,
  • more ill disposed,
  • ill disposed,
  • un friendly,
  • most ill-disposed,
  • un-friendlier,
  • most disliking,
  • un-friendliest,
  • anti-pathetic,
  • dis-liking,
  • un-friendly,
  • most ill disposed,
  • anti pathetic,
  • un-favorable,
  • dis liking,
  • un friendliest,
  • most illdisposed,
  • un favorable,
  • more ill-disposed,
  • more disliking,
  • more illdisposed.
  •backward (adjective)
  • re-served,
  • re tiring,
  • de-mure,
  • de mure,
  • re served,
  • re-tiring.
  •balky (adjective)
  • in-flexible,
  • un predictable,
  • un bending,
  • more negativistic,
  • un-predictable,
  • in-tractable,
  • un manageable,
  • in flexible,
  • obstinate,
  • stubborn,
  • immovable,
  • most negativistic,
  • un-bending,
  • in tractable,
  • un-manageable.
  •broken (adjective)
  • in coherent,
  • dis jointed,
  • un-intelligible,
  • more muttered,
  • most mumbled,
  • more mumbled,
  • most muttered,
  • in-coherent,
  • un intelligible,
  • dis-jointed.
  •changing (adjective)
  • vacillating.
  •chary (adjective)
  • SAFER,
  • safest.
  •conflicting (adjective)
  • ambivalent.
  •cowardly (adjective)
  • recreant.
  •doubtful (adjective)
  • questioning,
  • doubting,
  • most agnostic,
  • dis trustful,
  • in quandary,
  • more unconvinced,
  • un settled,
  • un convinced,
  • more discomposed,
  • dis-composed,
  • dis composed,
  • most baffled,
  • more questioning,
  • dis-trustful,
  • most questioning,
  • un-convinced,
  • more agnostic,
  • most faltering,
  • more baffled,
  • most discomposed,
  • most unconvinced,
  • more faltering,
  • un-settled.
  •dubious (adjective)
  • un trustworthy,
  • more unassured,
  • un-reliable,
  • un trustier,
  • un dependable,
  • un clearer,
  • un-assured,
  • touch go,
  • un clearest,
  • un likely,
  • most trustless,
  • un-trustier,
  • un-likely,
  • fly by night,
  • un likeliest,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • un reliable,
  • un trustiest,
  • un-clearest,
  • Mootable,
  • un-dependable,
  • un trusty,
  • most unassured,
  • dubitable,
  • untrustiest,
  • un-likelier,
  • un likelier,
  • far fetched,
  • iffy,
  • un-clear,
  • un-trusty,
  • un assured,
  • un-likeliest,
  • un-trustiest,
  • more trustless,
  • un clear,
  • un-clearer,
  • untrustier.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • shaky,
  • aflutter,
  • have cold feet,
  • running scared,
  • shrinking,
  • rabbity,
  • in a dither,
  • goose-bumpy,
  • weak-kneed.
  •gingerly (adjective)
  • gingerly.
  •humble (adjective)
  • unpretentious,
  • reverential,
  • supplicatory,
  • unambitious,
  • self-conscious.
  •ill (at ease) (adjective)
  • ill.
  •ill at ease (adjective)
  • out of place,
  • fidgety,
  • on pins and needles,
  • on tenterhooks,
  • unrelaxed.
  •inarticulate (adjective)
  • unvocal,
  • speechless,
  • wordless.
  •incredulous (adjective)
  • SHOW-ME,
  • mistrustful,
  • unsatisfied.
  •indecisive (adjective)
  • in-decisive,
  • un-determined,
  • more waffling,
  • in determinate,
  • un-stable,
  • un stable,
  • un-stablest,
  • un determined,
  • wishy washy,
  • hemming hawing,
  • in decisive,
  • wishywashy,
  • un eventful,
  • wishy-washy,
  • un-stabler,
  • hot cold,
  • un-eventful,
  • un stabler,
  • un stablest,
  • most astraddle,
  • more astraddle,
  • most waffling.
  •indisposed (adjective)
  • more uninclined,
  • un-inclined,
  • un caring,
  • in disposed,
  • un inclined,
  • most uninclined,
  • un-caring,
  • in-disposed.
  •insecure (adjective)
  • in secure,
  • most unpoised,
  • up the air,
  • more unpoised,
  • un poised,
  • more choked,
  • up tight,
  • in securest,
  • most unconfident,
  • in-securest,
  • up-tight,
  • up in air,
  • most delphic,
  • in-securer,
  • un-poised,
  • in securer,
  • more unconfident,
  • Unpoised,
  • up air,
  • in-secure,
  • un confident,
  • more delphic,
  • most choked,
  • un-confident.
  •irresolute (adjective)
  • Shilly-shally,
  • volatile,
  • in firm,
  • infirm,
  • watery,
  • inconsistent,
  • Half-hearted,
  • on-the-fence,
  • capricious,
  • spineless,
  • unwilling,
  • double-minded,
  • shifty,
  • halfhearted,
  • erratic,
  • undependable,
  • dillydallying,
  • insipid,
  • Flitting,
  • yellow,
  • impulsive,
  • fickle,
  • fly-by-night,
  • wimpy,
  • hot-and-cold,
  • changeable,
  • irresponsible.
  •lukewarm (adjective)
  • uninterested,
  • un responsive,
  • un interested,
  • un-responsive,
  • un committed,
  • un-interested,
  • un-committed,
  • un-concerned,
  • un concerned.
  •nervous (adjective)
  • un strung,
  • unstrung,
  • most spooked,
  • more ruffled,
  • more unrestful,
  • most ruffled,
  • high strung,
  • taut,
  • ex-citable,
  • un-strung,
  • highstrung,
  • un-restful,
  • most unrestful,
  • un restful,
  • more nervous,
  • up-set,
  • ex citable,
  • more spooked.
  •on the fence (adjective)
  • not sure,
  • in the middle,
  • running hot and cold,
  • not definite,
  • betwixt and between.
  •opposing (adjective)
  • averse.
  •recreant (adjective)
  • pigeonhearted,
  • meanspirited,
  • falsehearted.
  •reluctant (adjective)
  • laggard,
  • more disheartened,
  • more demurring,
  • most disheartened,
  • most grudging,
  • more grudging,
  • in-voluntary,
  • more laggard,
  • most demurring,
  • dis heartened,
  • most laggard,
  • dis-heartened,
  • in voluntary.
  •reticent (adjective)
  • more unforthcoming,
  • close mouthed,
  • more unspeaking,
  • most unspeaking,
  • un-speaking,
  • un forthcoming,
  • un-forthcoming,
  • tight lipped,
  • unforthcoming,
  • most unforthcoming,
  • un-communicative,
  • un speaking.
  •shy (adjective)
  • more unsocial,
  • un social,
  • un assertive,
  • most uneffusive,
  • un-social,
  • most introvert,
  • un effusive,
  • more unassertive,
  • recessive,
  • more introvert,
  • introvert,
  • most unsocial,
  • un-assertive,
  • more uneffusive,
  • un-effusive.
  •uncertain (adjective)
  • hanging by a thread,
  • unconfirmed,
  • unfixed,
  • up for grabs.
  •uncertain, waiting (adjective)
  • disinclined.
  •undecided (adjective)
  • un decided,
  • un finished,
  • more pendent,
  • un-finished,
  • most dithering,
  • more dithering,
  • un-decided.
  •unresolved (adjective)
  • un concluded,
  • in complete,
  • un resolved,
  • un solved,
  • un-resolved,
  • un-concluded,
  • most pussyfooting,
  • more unconcluded,
  • un-solved,
  • most unsolved,
  • more pussyfooting,
  • in-complete,
  • un-answered,
  • un answered,
  • more unsolved,
  • most unconcluded.
  •unsure (adjective)
  • un sure,
  • most rootless,
  • more rootless,
  • more fluctuant,
  • most fluctuant,
  • un-sure.
  •unwilling (adjective)
  • recalcitrant,
  • non-consenting,
  • unyielding,
  • uncooperative,
  • unconsenting,
  • squeamish,
  • Resisting,
  • irreconcilable,
  • defiant,
  • indisposed,
  • contrary,
  • unhelpful,
  • noncooperative,
  • opposed,
  • uncomplying.
  •vacillating (adjective)
  • more vibrating,
  • most oscillating,
  • most vibrating,
  • most swaying,
  • more swaying,
  • more oscillating,
  • most shifting.
  •weak (adjective)
  • laid back,
  • faint-hearted,
  • weakest,
  • Impuissant,
  • forceless,
  • out of gas.
  •weak-minded (adjective)
  • more yellowbellied,
  • more yellow bellied,
  • yellowbellied,
  • most yellowbellied,
  • weak minded,
  • most yellow-bellied,
  • weakminded,
  • most yellow bellied,
  • yellow bellied,
  • more yellow-bellied.

• n.

  •
  • alarmed,
  • troubled,
  • tense,
  • on edge,
  • anxious,
  • worried,
  • uneasy,
  • upset,
  • frightened.
  •
  • timid,
  • decide,
  • pendulous.
  •hesitant (noun)
  • incertain.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Vacillatory,
  • emphatic,
  • vacillant.
  •
  • slow.
  •distant
  • unapproachable.
  •insistent
  • urgent.
  •Other relevant words:
  • circumlocutory,
  • hypocritical,
  • wobbly,
  • shaking,
  • touch-and-go,
  • intimidated,
  • modest,
  • unready,
  • timorous,
  • variable,
  • be dilatory,
  • dicey,
  • undetermined,
  • impeach,
  • cynical,
  • mealy-mouthed,
  • disbelieving,
  • uncommunicative,
  • sheepish,
  • jumpy,
  • deceitful,
  • apathetic,
  • politic,
  • circumspect,
  • careful,
  • stumbling,
  • unadventurous,
  • puzzled,
  • affected,
  • polysemous,
  • scrupling,
  • undaring,
  • leery,
  • artful,
  • pawky,
  • tremulous,
  • shy of,
  • cowardly,
  • hanging back,
  • unaccountable,
  • scrupulous,
  • agnostic,
  • Boggling,
  • untrusting,
  • faulty,
  • loth,
  • shivering,
  • skeptical,
  • apprehensive,
  • prudent,
  • mealymouthed,
  • quaking,
  • uneven,
  • reserved,
  • quavering,
  • stammering,
  • balking,
  • periphrastic,
  • cautious,
  • havering,
  • palpitating,
  • dawdling,
  • whimsical,
  • safe,
  • restive,
  • quivering,
  • Demurring,
  • sceptical,
  • guarded,
  • regardful,
  • stuttering,
  • retiring,
  • unclear,
  • judicious,
  • on guard,
  • coy,
  • Weak-minded,
  • incalculable,
  • mindful,
  • Equivocating,
  • equivocal,
  • mumbling,
  • queasy,
  • tottery,
  • changing,
  • resistant,
  • suspicious,
  • unenterprising,
  • vacillate,
  • indirect,
  • thorough,
  • Qualmish,
  • unobtrusive,
  • halt,
  • unpredictable,
  • jittery,
  • unctuous,
  • chancy,
  • unverifiable,
  • unforeseeable,
  • namby-pamby,
  • embarrassed,
  • oily,
  • noncommittal,
  • trembling,
  • panicky,
  • unenthusiastic,
  • pusillanimous,
  • antagonistic,
  • Jibbing,
  • Distrusting,
  • roundabout,
  • unbelieving,
  • shuddering,
  • inconstant,
  • sticking,
  • edgy,
  • canny,
  • distrustful,
  • inconclusive,
  • Stickling,
  • discreet,
  • straining,
  • tergiversating,
  • self-effacing,
  • euphemistic,
  • a-tremble,
  • slick,
  • mincing,
  • Indemonstrable,
  • unprovable,
  • shifting,
  • deliberate,
  • problematic,
  • enigmatic,
  • faltering,
  • lazy,
  • discomfited,
  • at loose ends,
  • muttering,
  • uncomfortable,
  • unpersuaded,
  • Delaying,
  • heedful,
  • wary,
  • vague,
  • fluctuating,
  • bashful,
  • lacking confidence,
  • indefinite,
  • obscure,
  • shilly-shallying,
  • awkward,
  • ambiguous,
  • pause,
  • unsteady,
  • unsettled.

Paraphrases for Hesitant:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    reluctant, irresolute.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    cautious, unwilling, doubtful, Half-hearted, shy, questionable, shaky, restrained, dubious, wary, halting, insecure, resistant, precarious, dilatory, averse, careful, afraid.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    reticent, tentative, timid, indecisive, sceptical, loath, uncertain, wait-and-see, unsure.

Antonyms for Hesitant:

• adj.

  • uncertain, waiting
    fearless, believing, ready, resolute, willing, unwavering, decisive, certain, unhesitant, eager, brave, bold, sure, extroverted, confident, definite.