What is another word for Hesitated?
1364 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ hˈɛsɪtˌe͡ɪtɪd], [ hˈɛsɪtˌeɪtɪd], [ h_ˈɛ_s_ɪ_t_ˌeɪ_t_ɪ_d]Table of Contents
Similar words for Hesitated:- demur (verb)
- doubt (verb)
- falter (verb)
- fluctuate (verb)
- hesitate (verb)
- hesitated (verb)
- linger (verb)
- pause (verb)
- procrastinate (verb)
- procrastinated (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Hesitated:
v.
•demur (verb) •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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
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