What is another word for hesitating?
350 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ hˈɛsɪtˌe͡ɪtɪŋ], [ hˈɛsɪtˌeɪtɪŋ], [ h_ˈɛ_s_ɪ_t_ˌeɪ_t_ɪ_ŋ]
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Similar words for hesitating:
- backward (adjective)
- broken (adjective)
- changing (adjective)
- disinclined (adjective)
- doubtful (adjective)
- hesitant (adjective)
- inarticulate (adjective)
- indecisive (adjective)
- irresolute (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- reluctant (adjective)
- skeptical (adjective)
- unresolved (adjective)
- unwilling (adjective)
- vacillant (adjective)
- vacillating (adjective)
- wavering (adjective)
- weak-minded (adjective)
- hesitating (verb)
- procrastinating (verb)
- slow (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Hesitating:
adj.
• backward (adjective)- in-disposed,
- de-mure,
- re tiring,
- de mure,
- re-served,
- un-eager,
- re served,
- un eager,
- in disposed,
- more uneager,
- most uneager,
- re-tiring.
- in-coherent,
- dis-jointed,
- most mumbled,
- dis jointed,
- most muttered,
- un-intelligible,
- more stammering,
- un intelligible,
- in coherent,
- more mumbled,
- more muttered,
- most stammering.
- more protesting,
- more objecting,
- un-sympathetic,
- pro testing,
- anti-pathetic,
- anti pathetic,
- most sticking,
- most balking,
- most objecting,
- pro-testing,
- dis-inclined,
- not in mood,
- slowest,
- more shying,
- more sticking,
- most shying,
- not mood,
- un sympathetic,
- dis inclined,
- more balking,
- most protesting,
- not the mood.
- more weak kneed,
- more astraddle,
- in decisive,
- wishywashy,
- un-determined,
- weak kneed,
- in-decisive,
- wishy washy,
- most waffling,
- more weak-kneed,
- most weak kneed,
- on fence,
- un-eventful,
- un stabler,
- in-conclusive,
- more waffling,
- weak-kneed,
- in conclusive,
- in determinate,
- most weak-kneed,
- hot cold,
- weakkneed,
- wishy-washy,
- un stable,
- most astraddle,
- hemming hawing,
- un determined,
- un-stablest,
- most weakkneed,
- un stablest,
- un eventful,
- un-stabler,
- un-stable,
- more weakkneed.
- uneager,
- unsolved,
- hesitant,
- irresolute,
- unwilling,
- indecisive,
- hemming and hawing,
- without guts,
- yellow-bellied,
- doubtful,
- lacking confidence,
- unresolved,
- in clouds,
- hot and cold,
- Shying,
- broken,
- of two minds,
- not in the mood,
- not following,
- astraddle,
- reluctant,
- betwixt and between,
- vacillant,
- skeptical,
- inarticulate,
- backward,
- unconcluded,
- in dilemma,
- without belief,
- in a quandary,
- unconvinced,
- open to question.
- more demurring,
- dis-heartened,
- more disheartened,
- most demurring,
- in-voluntary,
- more laggard,
- most laggard,
- laggard,
- in voluntary,
- dis heartened,
- more grudging,
- most grudging,
- most disheartened.
- most unconcluded,
- most pussyfooting,
- up the air,
- un-solved,
- in-complete,
- in complete,
- un-answered,
- un concluded,
- un finished,
- up air,
- more unconcluded,
- un-concluded,
- betwixt between,
- most unsolved,
- un answered,
- un solved,
- un-finished,
- up in air,
- more pussyfooting,
- more unsolved,
- un resolved,
- un-resolved.
v.
• hesitating (verb) • procrastinating (verb) • slow (verb)- slow.
Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words (noun):- hesitate,
- demur,
- unsteady,
- indisposition,
- wavering,
- tergiversating,
- incalculable,
- waffling,
- crawling,
- diffidence,
- oscillating,
- stuttering,
- tremulous,
- hesitation,
- namby-pamby,
- Distrusting,
- Jibbing,
- variable,
- sceptical,
- alternating,
- balancing,
- untrusting,
- Indemonstrable,
- straining,
- shilly-shallying,
- suspicious,
- doubting,
- nervous,
- quivering,
- unforeseeable,
- touch-and-go,
- pendulous,
- ambivalent,
- loath,
- caution,
- dithering,
- dubious,
- Vacillatory,
- vacillate,
- stumbling,
- infirm,
- suspense,
- indefinite,
- fluctuating,
- ambiguous,
- flittering,
- irresolution,
- scrupulous,
- delay,
- dicey,
- unsettled,
- unbelieving,
- be doubtful,
- disinclined,
- tottering,
- scrupling,
- waver,
- mistrustful,
- disinclination,
- staggering,
- Floundering,
- hesitancy,
- at loose ends,
- diffident,
- agnostic,
- equivocal,
- indetermination,
- disbelieving,
- uncertainty,
- unaccountable,
- stammering,
- Demurring,
- flickering,
- uneven,
- falter,
- shifting,
- sputtering,
- fickle,
- chancy,
- unverifiable,
- Suspecting,
- reluctance,
- shy,
- uneasy,
- balky,
- fluttering,
- polysemous,
- at a loss,
- dillydallying,
- changeable,
- havering,
- squeamish,
- unpersuaded,
- timid,
- vacillation,
- indecision,
- chary,
- balbutient,
- bashful,
- undecided,
- fidgety,
- Hovering,
- oscillation,
- caprice,
- sticking,
- changing,
- capricious,
- leery,
- unpredictable,
- Boggling,
- erratic,
- undetermined,
- Weak-minded,
- alternation,
- double-minded,
- wary,
- Undetermination,
- cautious,
- Shilly-shally,
- awkward,
- hesitance,
- quavering,
- modest,
- distrustful,
- cynical,
- Unsettlement,
- fluctuation,
- shy of,
- unclear,
- Qualmish,
- whimsical,
- faulty,
- unprovable,
- restive,
- hum and haw,
- Stickling,
- tentative,
- changeableness.
Paraphrases for Hesitating:
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doubting.
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