Synonyms for Hesitated:

• v.

  •demur (verb)
  • stickle,
  • wait and see,
  • combat.
  •doubt (verb)
  • query,
  • distrust,
  • Skepticize,
  • have qualms,
  • surmise,
  • wonder at,
  • suspect,
  • read differently,
  • be in a quandary,
  • fear,
  • discredit,
  • not buy,
  • take dim view of,
  • be puzzled,
  • be curious,
  • harbor suspicion,
  • imagine,
  • be dubious,
  • disbelieve,
  • smell a rat,
  • mistrust,
  • be uncertain,
  • give no credence,
  • misgive,
  • impugn,
  • Misdoubt,
  • be apprehensive of,
  • be undetermined,
  • call in question,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • insinuate.
  •falter (verb)
  • be undecided,
  • speak haltingly,
  • Whiffle,
  • trip up.
  •fluctuate (verb)
  • rise and fall,
  • ebb and flow.
  •hesitate (verb)
  • fumble,
  • balk,
  • defer,
  • pussyfoot,
  • hem and haw,
  • alternate,
  • hold off,
  • fluctuate,
  • pause,
  • swerve,
  • stumble,
  • tergiversate,
  • waffle,
  • think twice,
  • stop,
  • demur,
  • hang back,
  • blow hot and cold,
  • ponder,
  • equivocate,
  • hover,
  • vacillate,
  • shy away,
  • balance,
  • doubt,
  • straddle,
  • linger,
  • scruple,
  • hold back,
  • pull back,
  • stammer,
  • delay,
  • dither,
  • weigh,
  • falter,
  • waver,
  • oscillate,
  • sit on fence,
  • dally,
  • dillydally,
  • seesaw,
  • be unwilling,
  • shift,
  • think about,
  • shrink,
  • be reluctant,
  • be irresolute,
  • debate,
  • flounder,
  • stutter,
  • hedge.
  •hesitated (verb)
  • halted,
  • balked,
  • shrunk,
  • Paused,
  • delayed,
  • Faltered,
  • Shrank,
  • Waited,
  • Recoiled.
  •linger (verb)
  • remain,
  • wait around,
  • stay,
  • goof off,
  • be dilatory,
  • put off.
  •pause (verb)
  • take five,
  • take ten,
  • drop,
  • put on hold.
  •procrastinate (verb)
  • postpone,
  • temporize,
  • retard,
  • drag one's feet,
  • play a waiting game,
  • adjourn,
  • stall,
  • play for time,
  • hang fire,
  • protract,
  • drag,
  • prolong,
  • goldbrick,
  • let slide,
  • give the run around.
  •procrastinated (verb)
  • Lingered,
  • filibustered,
  • Stalled,
  • Procrastinated,
  • Dawdled,
  • dilly-dallyied,
  • Dallied,
  • Vacillated.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • fight back,
  • breathe,
  • reach,
  • fall,
  • fritter,
  • go after,
  • be tardy,
  • ruffle,
  • dip,
  • immure,
  • frivolity,
  • interruption,
  • breed,
  • finish,
  • judder,
  • cretin,
  • roost,
  • breaking,
  • fawn,
  • eighth note,
  • pains,
  • bollocks up,
  • violate,
  • freewheel,
  • keep up,
  • impetus,
  • defraud,
  • teddy,
  • parry,
  • cave in,
  • send packing,
  • forbear,
  • victimize,
  • incertitude,
  • bun,
  • goof,
  • change,
  • jive,
  • sales booth,
  • flutter,
  • imprison,
  • lambaste,
  • dumbfound,
  • blockage,
  • doubtfulness,
  • lurk,
  • alternative,
  • spliff,
  • ball up,
  • range,
  • take one's time,
  • strangle,
  • go against,
  • fuss,
  • lie,
  • variegate,
  • sift,
  • skunk,
  • distrustfulness,
  • bounce,
  • bond,
  • disrepute,
  • elude,
  • shrivel up,
  • difference of opinion,
  • conjecture,
  • matter,
  • spring,
  • intentional,
  • pad,
  • handclasp,
  • discover,
  • hopple,
  • enquiry,
  • control stick,
  • cramp iron,
  • falling out,
  • disconcert,
  • keep,
  • moon around,
  • frig around,
  • disrupt,
  • bankrupt,
  • awe,
  • flurry,
  • lag,
  • coggle,
  • sweep up,
  • revere,
  • interpolate,
  • cubicle,
  • chemise,
  • strive,
  • creep,
  • flapping,
  • loiter,
  • detain,
  • tinker,
  • intercept,
  • have words,
  • trifle,
  • librate,
  • track,
  • cut down,
  • cut off,
  • reject,
  • point out,
  • curve,
  • depreciate,
  • drag out,
  • palter,
  • stagnate,
  • dubiety,
  • cast,
  • potter,
  • think,
  • carp,
  • tenor,
  • turn back,
  • back out,
  • shaft,
  • conceive of,
  • plosive consonant,
  • respite,
  • stand firm,
  • lambast,
  • ramble,
  • sheer,
  • hold over,
  • bead,
  • roll up,
  • tremble,
  • pursuit,
  • take turns,
  • turn off,
  • scroll,
  • handicap,
  • call down,
  • quetch,
  • fault,
  • disdain,
  • give chase,
  • timber,
  • whirl,
  • excite,
  • temporise,
  • dissipate,
  • stimulate,
  • guess,
  • prod,
  • leave out,
  • mull over,
  • lower,
  • put down,
  • infract,
  • decelerate,
  • trend,
  • undulate,
  • plosive,
  • filter,
  • shifting,
  • joyride,
  • shuffle,
  • slowdown,
  • complain,
  • hurly burly,
  • founder,
  • fighting,
  • bilk,
  • funny,
  • kiosk,
  • block,
  • surrogate,
  • ruminate,
  • stoppage,
  • dead,
  • fluttering,
  • deposit,
  • pry,
  • understudy,
  • bobble,
  • remit,
  • mosey,
  • make,
  • bump,
  • straining,
  • draw,
  • hang around,
  • evade,
  • crease,
  • speculate,
  • freeze,
  • resiny,
  • get around,
  • react,
  • spin around,
  • punch,
  • deprecate,
  • melodic line,
  • rebound,
  • tease,
  • drag in,
  • pull in one's horns,
  • slew,
  • cower,
  • puppet,
  • hornswoggle,
  • dangle,
  • bewilder,
  • fence,
  • sack,
  • drum roll,
  • reckon,
  • lounger,
  • equilibrise,
  • separate out,
  • scuff,
  • objective,
  • dodder,
  • imbecile,
  • break in,
  • lallygag,
  • halting,
  • snap off,
  • expend,
  • prison-breaking,
  • fearfulness,
  • trip-up,
  • occlusive,
  • stanch,
  • skirt,
  • coquet,
  • fiddle,
  • drip,
  • prisonbreak,
  • wait,
  • armed combat,
  • duty period,
  • relief,
  • omit,
  • quaver,
  • laze,
  • baulk,
  • mishandle,
  • lagger,
  • toy with,
  • supposition,
  • gainsay,
  • bollix up,
  • fool around,
  • half-wit,
  • revolve,
  • curl,
  • plain,
  • dog,
  • thump,
  • retreat,
  • frivol,
  • stalling,
  • screw up,
  • carrier bag,
  • frippery,
  • trounce,
  • hoo-ha,
  • yo-yo,
  • weaken,
  • contend,
  • retarding force,
  • object,
  • withstand,
  • piddle away,
  • cast off,
  • hold on,
  • totter,
  • excogitate,
  • drag on,
  • creature,
  • muscle spasm,
  • think over,
  • by-line,
  • cleave,
  • abide,
  • resinous,
  • pretermit,
  • wither,
  • equilibrium,
  • stroll,
  • cart,
  • dallier,
  • hobby,
  • kerfuffle,
  • swinging,
  • footslog,
  • give,
  • decline,
  • adumbrate,
  • drop cloth,
  • nonplus,
  • equalizer,
  • spend,
  • flatten,
  • mope,
  • meantime,
  • budge,
  • burst,
  • trip,
  • monkey,
  • quarrel,
  • gimp,
  • slug,
  • swing music,
  • fudge,
  • abstain,
  • waggle,
  • prowl,
  • mess up,
  • riffle,
  • castrate,
  • cringe,
  • play,
  • muck about,
  • mulct,
  • fritter away,
  • gaolbreak,
  • lame,
  • prorogue,
  • diaphragm,
  • lounge about,
  • hale,
  • small beer,
  • putting iron,
  • hold up,
  • trail,
  • relegate,
  • spasm,
  • objection,
  • rest,
  • open frame,
  • swindle,
  • counterpoise,
  • sleep,
  • crawling,
  • no-account,
  • rest period,
  • suspension,
  • suspicion,
  • stem,
  • escape from,
  • cut,
  • poise,
  • nisus,
  • dread,
  • jib,
  • draw out,
  • instrument,
  • philander,
  • mess about,
  • flinch,
  • flit,
  • thread,
  • gap,
  • break away,
  • var.,
  • lay off,
  • hobble,
  • chat up,
  • switch,
  • inquiry,
  • break-dance,
  • lick,
  • jail,
  • rift,
  • intrude,
  • demurral,
  • gaol,
  • putter around,
  • dissent,
  • cliff,
  • veneration,
  • food waste,
  • throw away,
  • layover,
  • fall back,
  • stir,
  • brood,
  • frizzle,
  • turn away,
  • turn down,
  • stub toe,
  • unfounded,
  • rock 'n' roll,
  • public debate,
  • putz,
  • vagabond,
  • distribute,
  • wander,
  • defend,
  • break it up,
  • crippled,
  • bawl out,
  • mess around,
  • meditate,
  • sit,
  • contrivance,
  • break off,
  • break down,
  • fracture,
  • fishy,
  • saunter,
  • moron,
  • reside,
  • dilly-dally,
  • tense,
  • bum about,
  • split up,
  • alternating,
  • degenerate,
  • mash,
  • dredge,
  • pull away,
  • waiting,
  • move back,
  • remainder,
  • reefer,
  • mill about,
  • play off,
  • fight down,
  • pin,
  • quiver,
  • purport,
  • pother,
  • hustle,
  • barricade,
  • sideline,
  • golf stroke,
  • remand,
  • careen,
  • lodge,
  • milk shake,
  • bulk large,
  • turn over,
  • knowing,
  • proportion,
  • get,
  • await,
  • go bad,
  • substitute,
  • interrogation,
  • teetertotter,
  • tip,
  • take a break,
  • hold fast,
  • recrudesce,
  • joystick,
  • sting,
  • extend,
  • meanwhile,
  • symmetry,
  • dishearten,
  • recess,
  • resist,
  • louse up,
  • hesitate,
  • pitchy,
  • perch,
  • equipoise,
  • persist,
  • lour,
  • transfer,
  • kick,
  • horn in,
  • rupture,
  • coquette,
  • neuter,
  • wanton away,
  • target,
  • rolling,
  • muck up,
  • cock,
  • shake off,
  • engagement,
  • match,
  • idle,
  • out of work,
  • except,
  • potter around,
  • nose,
  • stratagem,
  • sustain,
  • wave,
  • continue,
  • suspend,
  • stone,
  • appease,
  • falsify,
  • speculation,
  • monkey around,
  • muff,
  • muse,
  • strike down,
  • pinch,
  • severance,
  • stray,
  • go up and down,
  • wanton,
  • conflict,
  • fail,
  • levitate,
  • joint,
  • plodding,
  • smash,
  • time out,
  • ruin,
  • outride,
  • drift,
  • bind,
  • bat,
  • damp,
  • careful,
  • tumble,
  • break,
  • breakage,
  • give in,
  • replacement,
  • dilly-dallier,
  • offend,
  • flub,
  • flip-flop,
  • peal,
  • rolling wave,
  • drop behind,
  • impulsion,
  • bend,
  • neglect,
  • scrap,
  • set back,
  • switching,
  • slump,
  • booth,
  • scraps,
  • butterfly,
  • dart,
  • moon about,
  • grovel,
  • spoil,
  • keel,
  • cramp,
  • stopped up,
  • ease,
  • circumvent,
  • rock,
  • bobbin,
  • bow,
  • botch,
  • free fall,
  • occlusion,
  • set down,
  • dig,
  • bunco,
  • recoil,
  • quit,
  • loose,
  • nobble,
  • mope around,
  • waste one's time,
  • unwarranted,
  • sound off,
  • scoke,
  • expect,
  • crawfish out,
  • qualm,
  • argument,
  • knock off,
  • stupefy,
  • oppose,
  • unused,
  • mystify,
  • kibosh,
  • diddle,
  • crawfish,
  • count,
  • drop down,
  • reveal,
  • vary,
  • mix,
  • muck around,
  • blockade,
  • battle,
  • mental strain,
  • ne'er-do-well,
  • rafter,
  • variant,
  • bungle,
  • shirk,
  • rock and roll,
  • retain,
  • upset apple cart,
  • foul up,
  • come to standstill,
  • shed,
  • rock music,
  • uncover,
  • go,
  • paddle,
  • peg,
  • fetter,
  • roller,
  • perambulation,
  • err,
  • deliberate,
  • wild,
  • cling,
  • stick by,
  • embroil,
  • train,
  • catch one's breath,
  • teeter-totter,
  • marijuana cigarette,
  • calculated,
  • divulge,
  • promenade,
  • unsure,
  • pillow,
  • tail,
  • quibble,
  • lounge,
  • bollix,
  • meander,
  • contravention,
  • play around,
  • thrusting,
  • didder,
  • disturb,
  • fend,
  • be adrift,
  • rock'n'roll,
  • remonstrate,
  • con,
  • look,
  • roam,
  • slip,
  • slip up,
  • retract,
  • scheme,
  • fell,
  • amble,
  • fool,
  • distort,
  • ripple,
  • dandle board,
  • striving,
  • repose,
  • altercate,
  • beat around the bush,
  • refrain,
  • uncertainty,
  • diffident,
  • poking,
  • rock candy,
  • hesitation,
  • tilt,
  • holdup,
  • rove,
  • entertain,
  • paper bag,
  • frivol away,
  • discontinue,
  • jaw,
  • pecker,
  • disclose,
  • lunge,
  • traipse,
  • eternal sleep,
  • mill around,
  • pit,
  • hamper,
  • loaf,
  • shoot,
  • chew up,
  • procrastinate,
  • campaign,
  • retardation,
  • curlicue,
  • controvert,
  • stop briefly,
  • game,
  • shine,
  • sneak,
  • sin,
  • plosive speech sound,
  • press,
  • loll around,
  • garget,
  • jug,
  • prevaricate,
  • cockle,
  • apostatize,
  • fuck up,
  • swing out,
  • bound,
  • put behind bars,
  • work shift,
  • hold,
  • transformation,
  • backfire,
  • drop back,
  • wobble,
  • crusade,
  • venerate,
  • misstep,
  • break out,
  • bide,
  • change over,
  • scuffle,
  • coil,
  • shlep,
  • light,
  • agitate,
  • float,
  • equaliser,
  • spurn,
  • transgress,
  • throw off,
  • handshaking,
  • measured,
  • let out,
  • hedging,
  • bum,
  • submit,
  • driblet,
  • sidestep,
  • full point,
  • cease,
  • deform,
  • pluck,
  • chase,
  • tag,
  • restrain,
  • depart,
  • eternal rest,
  • tramp,
  • blunder,
  • wear out,
  • tarry,
  • slog,
  • jailbreak,
  • dodge,
  • halter,
  • idiot,
  • reprimand,
  • rebuke,
  • stock,
  • trivia,
  • swan,
  • sieve,
  • lurch,
  • residuum,
  • quietus,
  • filter out,
  • laggard,
  • slow down,
  • kvetch,
  • bumble,
  • loll,
  • kick back,
  • equilibrize,
  • care,
  • piddle,
  • alter,
  • shake up,
  • dismiss,
  • gimpy,
  • romance,
  • libra,
  • shift key,
  • disputation,
  • bring out,
  • spay,
  • suspicious,
  • trailer,
  • horse around,
  • shrivel,
  • triviality,
  • seethe,
  • stay put,
  • bowl,
  • impediment,
  • diverge,
  • break dance,
  • retire,
  • sweep,
  • separate,
  • consider,
  • dislodge,
  • dribble,
  • check,
  • contract,
  • slow,
  • out of bounds,
  • waving,
  • twine,
  • pigeon berry,
  • form,
  • residual,
  • reduce,
  • argue,
  • shiver,
  • gravel,
  • swing over,
  • try,
  • sink,
  • transmutation,
  • tool,
  • plication,
  • halt,
  • residue,
  • good luck,
  • collapse,
  • goof-off,
  • carrell,
  • competitiveness,
  • discharge,
  • motley,
  • balance wheel,
  • tickle,
  • tense up,
  • demurrer,
  • stagger,
  • fold,
  • spin,
  • let on,
  • flap,
  • part,
  • boob,
  • scorn,
  • defendant,
  • modify,
  • shady,
  • breach,
  • flirt with,
  • song,
  • tangle,
  • moot,
  • stopover,
  • miss,
  • happy chance,
  • mouse,
  • defy,
  • split,
  • shrink from,
  • accede,
  • swag,
  • lounge around,
  • come apart,
  • stop consonant,
  • footle,
  • flicker,
  • unwrap,
  • difference,
  • stopped-up,
  • wheel,
  • question,
  • thrust,
  • breakout,
  • crimper,
  • concern,
  • physical object,
  • air,
  • deny,
  • botch up,
  • incarcerate,
  • duck,
  • creeping,
  • deviate,
  • flirt,
  • slow up,
  • contradict,
  • reverberate,
  • beckon,
  • put over,
  • chide,
  • disruption,
  • stab,
  • vacillation,
  • conceal,
  • bankroll,
  • lead,
  • crawl,
  • thrill,
  • stave,
  • changeling,
  • argumentation,
  • pass up,
  • dillydallier,
  • freeze off,
  • grope,
  • be long,
  • throw,
  • postponement,
  • terminate,
  • hedgerow,
  • conk out,
  • equilibrate,
  • counterweight,
  • rook,
  • disgrace,
  • protestation,
  • faltering,
  • relaxation,
  • slue,
  • baseball swing,
  • veering,
  • frizz,
  • weave,
  • chew over,
  • pose,
  • drag one's heels,
  • scam,
  • envisage,
  • deterrent,
  • pitching,
  • amaze,
  • baffle,
  • wince,
  • swing,
  • disapprove,
  • point,
  • nervous strain,
  • jabbing,
  • withdraw,
  • erupt,
  • vibrate,
  • cohere,
  • short-change,
  • sway,
  • droop,
  • rag,
  • flummox,
  • shimmy,
  • better,
  • quiddity,
  • adhere,
  • quell,
  • rock-and-roll,
  • veer,
  • prick,
  • perplex,
  • ringlet,
  • head-shrinker,
  • teeterboard,
  • crack,
  • shy,
  • challenge,
  • block off,
  • struggle,
  • take to task,
  • gyrate,
  • resonate,
  • devolve,
  • swerving,
  • give away,
  • wrap,
  • demote,
  • vex,
  • jobless,
  • call on the carpet,
  • tilting board,
  • expose,
  • stick around,
  • wear,
  • shamble,
  • geological fault,
  • fright,
  • tune,
  • confuse,
  • timid,
  • disturbance,
  • brandish,
  • overleap,
  • hitch,
  • fluff,
  • wafture,
  • dick,
  • end,
  • wind,
  • bar,
  • cavil,
  • call time,
  • pull,
  • lumber,
  • arrest,
  • chase after,
  • reel,
  • deteriorate,
  • biff,
  • drop off,
  • roll out,
  • blow,
  • spare-time activity,
  • dodging,
  • toy,
  • period,
  • catch,
  • refuse,
  • apostatise,
  • get behind,
  • topple,
  • baseless,
  • staunch,
  • kick downstairs,
  • span,
  • jab,
  • pitch,
  • give up,
  • counterbalance,
  • melody,
  • bollocks,
  • palpitate,
  • golf shot,
  • drop curtain,
  • recede,
  • intermission,
  • last out,
  • intermit,
  • filtrate,
  • kink up,
  • roster,
  • pound,
  • spool,
  • backlash,
  • scold,
  • stick about,
  • shambling,
  • back away,
  • handshake,
  • hoo-hah,
  • tick over,
  • putter,
  • dawdler,
  • give way,
  • push,
  • stay on,
  • poke,
  • whorl,
  • opine,
  • repercussion,
  • crape,
  • front crawl,
  • teeter,
  • puff,
  • bum around,
  • waitress,
  • argufy,
  • stand by,
  • log,
  • desist,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • warble,
  • protest,
  • keep back,
  • shuffling,
  • axial motion,
  • take a breather,
  • wedge,
  • time lag,
  • contemplate,
  • shelve,
  • reverence,
  • fall apart,
  • debar,
  • to-do,
  • ride out,
  • pearl,
  • psychiatrist,
  • baseball bat,
  • give out,
  • interchange,
  • break of serve,
  • dampen,
  • limp,
  • drop the ball,
  • chicane,
  • interrupt,
  • roll,
  • set aside,
  • send away,
  • hold out,
  • fall in,
  • funk,
  • heading,
  • line,
  • undulation,
  • take a hop,
  • kink,
  • take exception,
  • table,
  • jump,
  • intimate,
  • trudge,
  • chew out,
  • yaw,
  • stop over,
  • movement,
  • strain,
  • waddle,
  • conk,
  • resile,
  • berate,
  • put away,
  • misgiving,
  • squinch,
  • shake,
  • wag,
  • flip,
  • axial rotation,
  • garbage,
  • bagatelle,
  • surmisal,
  • fool away,
  • drone,
  • interim,
  • unload,
  • stress,
  • develop,
  • draw back,
  • suppose,
  • soften,
  • crimp,
  • full stop,
  • move slowly,
  • stick to,
  • ricochet,
  • fall behind,
  • reflect,
  • lilt,
  • paradiddle,
  • block up,
  • break up,
  • beat,
  • shingle,
  • hold in,
  • think of,
  • pealing,
  • good-for-naught,
  • stand,
  • shillyshally,
  • pooh-pooh,
  • mull,
  • hedge in,
  • clout,
  • quail,
  • lollygag,
  • dubiousness,
  • flourish,
  • haul,
  • dawdle,
  • flexure,
  • bust,
  • fuck off,
  • dispute,
  • avocation,
  • sit around,
  • tool around,
  • commotion,
  • loom,
  • ideate,
  • reposition,
  • lecture,
  • die,
  • dress down,
  • puzzle,
  • get out,
  • displacement,
  • gyre,
  • hindrance,
  • overlook,
  • gallery,
  • tack,
  • flitter,
  • closure,
  • symmetricalness,
  • milkshake,
  • tizzy,
  • puree,
  • correspondence,
  • shack,
  • slouch,
  • melodic phrase,
  • aim,
  • drop-off,
  • groundless,
  • hypothesis,
  • fight,
  • stick,
  • plod,
  • trill,
  • moving ridge,
  • contain,
  • fleet,
  • proportionality,
  • toddle,
  • carrel.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • Flickered,
  • postponed,
  • Fluctuated,
  • Floundered,
  • Wavered,
  • balanced,
  • Quavered,
  • waffled,
  • Tarried,
  • Alternated,
  • Demurred,
  • reflected,
  • Stuttered,
  • Stumbled,
  • Tottered,
  • Scrupled,
  • fluttered,
  • Sputtered,
  • Boggled,
  • Stammered,
  • suspected,
  • flittered,
  • Staggered,
  • Hovered,
  • Oscillated,
  • Quivered,
  • dithered,
  • stopped,
  • doubted.

Paraphrases for Hesitated:

• Independent

  • Verb, past tense
    reported, Abstained, Did, Echoed, Faltered, Flinched, Occurred, Paused, Reiterated, Wavered, circulated, doubted.
  • Verb, past participle
    alleged, attended, repeated, reported, rumored, torn, Echoed, Mentioned, Questioned, Visited, circulated.

Antonyms for Hesitated:

• v.

  • demur
    agree, consent, accept, go along.
  • doubt
    rely, trust, believe, not question, be certain.
  • falter
    maintain, persist, endure, stay, remain.
  • fluctuate
    hold.
  • hesitate
    continue, resolve, carry on, go ahead, go, attack, persevere.
  • linger
    leave, rush, hurry.
  • pause
    restart.
  • procrastinate
    accelerate, finish, advance, DO, quicken, complete.