350 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ hˈɛsɪtˌe͡ɪtɪŋ], [ hˈɛsɪtˌe‍ɪtɪŋ], [ h_ˈɛ_s_ɪ_t_ˌeɪ_t_ɪ_ŋ]

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)

Paraphrases for hesitating

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.
  • broken (adjective)
  • in-coherent,
  • dis-jointed,
  • most mumbled,
  • dis jointed,
  • most muttered,
  • un-intelligible,
  • more stammering,
  • un intelligible,
  • in coherent,
  • more mumbled,
  • more muttered,
  • most stammering.
  • changing (adjective)
  • vacillating.
  • disinclined (adjective)
  • 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.
  • doubtful (adjective)
  • uncertain,
  • unsure.
  • hesitant (adjective)
  • de-laying,
  • most dawdling,
  • Half-hearted,
  • more dawdling,
  • de laying,
  • un predictable,
  • un-predictable.
  • inarticulate (adjective)
  • wordless,
  • speechless,
  • unvocal.
  • indecisive (adjective)
  • 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.
  • irresolute (adjective)
  • hot-and-cold,
  • on-the-fence,
  • in firm,
  • wimpy.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • 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.
  • reluctant (adjective)
  • 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.
  • skeptical (adjective)
  • SHOW-ME,
  • freethinking,
  • aporetic.
  • unresolved (adjective)
  • 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.
  • unwilling (adjective)
  • unobliging,
  • against the grain,
  • unaccommodating,
  • unready,
  • uncheerful,
  • uninclined,
  • unwishful.
  • vacillant (adjective)
  • shillyshally.
  • vacillating (adjective)
  • more swaying,
  • in-constant,
  • more vibrating,
  • most oscillating,
  • most vibrating,
  • most swaying,
  • most shifting,
  • more oscillating.
  • wavering (adjective)
  • more irresoluteoscillating,
  • irresoluteoscillating,
  • most irresoluteoscillating.
  • weak-minded (adjective)
  • most yellow bellied,
  • more yellow-bellied,
  • most yellow-bellied,
  • more yellow bellied,
  • yellow bellied,
  • yellowbellied,
  • more yellowbellied,
  • weak minded,
  • most yellowbellied,
  • weakminded.

• v.

  • hesitating (verb)
  • halting,
  • balking,
  • shrinking,
  • waiting,
  • Recoiling,
  • Pausing,
  • Delaying,
  • faltering.
  • procrastinating (verb)
  • stalling,
  • Filibustering,
  • dawdling,
  • Dallying,
  • lingering,
  • Procrastinating,
  • dilly-dallying.
  • 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:

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    doubting.