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Pronunciation:
[ vˈasɪlˌe͡ɪtɪŋ], [ vˈasɪlˌeɪtɪŋ], [ v_ˈa_s_ɪ_l_ˌeɪ_t_ɪ_ŋ]
Related words: vacillating on, vacillating between, vacillating off, vacillating about, vacillating on something, vacillating between 2 things, vacillating between options
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Similar words for vacillating:
- ambivalent (adjective)
- capricious (adjective)
- changeable (adjective)
- changing (adjective)
- conflicting (adjective)
- cowardly (adjective)
- doubtful (adjective)
- fluctuating (adjective)
- giddy (adjective)
- halting (adjective)
- hesitant (adjective)
- inconstant (adjective)
- indecisive (adjective)
- infirm (adjective)
- insecure (adjective)
- irresolute (adjective)
- oscillating (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- shaky (adjective)
- spineless (adjective)
- timid (adjective)
- torn (adjective)
- uncertain (adjective)
- unreliable (adjective)
- unresolved (adjective)
- unstable (adjective)
- unstable/unsteady (adjective)
- unsteady (adjective)
- unsure (adjective)
- up-and-down (adjective)
- vacillant (adjective)
- variable (adjective)
- wavering (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- wishy-washy (adjective)
- wobbly (adjective)
- off-and-on (adverb)
- other relevant words (adverb)
- back and forth (adverb)
- backward and forward (adverb)
- off and on (adverb)
- other relevant words (adverb)
- other relevant words (noun)
- strong-minded (noun)
- changing (verb)
- doubting (verb)
- oscillating (verb)
- procrastinating (verb)
- other synonyms
- back and forth
- indecisive
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Vacillating:
adj.
• ambivalent (adjective)- most clashing,
- un-decided,
- most opposed,
- un decided,
- most fluctuating,
- in conclusive,
- more clashing,
- more fluctuating,
- in-conclusive.
- frivolous,
- flighty,
- sporadic,
- whimsical,
- scatterbrained,
- erratic,
- wayward,
- arbitrary,
- random,
- fluctuating,
- fly-by-night,
- fitful,
- fleeting,
- capricious,
- fickle,
- Flitting,
- volatile,
- fanciful,
- impulsive.
- changeful,
- ever-changing,
- reformable,
- fluid,
- flexible,
- reversible,
- Vicissitudinous,
- Transposable,
- precarious,
- modifiable,
- Permutable,
- alterable,
- transitional,
- adjustable,
- commutative,
- revocable,
- shifting,
- mutable,
- transformable,
- versatile,
- protean,
- restless,
- convertible,
- adaptable,
- mercurial,
- unsettled,
- movable.
- more faltering,
- dis-trustful,
- most discomposed,
- more questioning,
- more flustered,
- dis-composed,
- dis-concerted,
- most agnostic,
- questioning,
- dis concerted,
- un-convinced,
- more unconvinced,
- most flustered,
- most unconvinced,
- most questioning,
- more baffled,
- dis composed,
- most faltering,
- un convinced,
- more discomposed,
- dis trustful,
- more agnostic,
- doubting,
- most baffled,
- in quandary.
- ditzier,
- emptyheaded,
- un-balanced,
- be-mused,
- bubbleheaded,
- more bubbleheaded,
- ditziest,
- most bubbleheaded,
- empty headed,
- be mused,
- ditzy.
- more stumbling,
- un handy,
- most limping,
- most stumbling,
- most claudicant,
- un handier,
- most stammering,
- stumbling,
- more stuttering,
- un-handier,
- un-handiest,
- more limping,
- more stammering,
- most stuttering,
- un handiest,
- unhandiest,
- unhandier,
- more claudicant,
- un-handy.
- more uneager,
- most uneager,
- Half-hearted,
- dis inclined,
- un-eager,
- de laying,
- most dawdling,
- dis-inclined,
- un eager,
- un-willing,
- de-laying,
- more dawdling,
- un willing.
- more waffling,
- in constant,
- un dependable,
- un-dependable,
- most waffling,
- flickering,
- in-consistent,
- in-constant,
- in consistent.
- most weak-kneed,
- more weak kneed,
- un eventful,
- on fence,
- most weakkneed,
- in-decisive,
- more astraddle,
- un clearest,
- hemming hawing,
- in decisive,
- weakkneed,
- un clear,
- un-clearest,
- un-eventful,
- un-determined,
- most astraddle,
- hot cold,
- un-clear,
- weak kneed,
- most weak kneed,
- in determinate,
- more weakkneed,
- weak-kneed,
- un determined,
- more weak-kneed.
- most enfeebled,
- un sound,
- more anile,
- most anile,
- un-substantial,
- most sensile,
- un-sounder,
- un-soundest,
- in-firm,
- un substantial,
- un sounder,
- in firmest,
- in-firmest,
- in firmer,
- in-firmer,
- un-sound,
- more sensile,
- more enfeebled.
- unguarded,
- in securest,
- in-substantial,
- ex-posed,
- in-secure,
- more fluctuant,
- most unshielded,
- in substantial,
- ex posed,
- un safer,
- un shielded,
- un protected,
- in-securest,
- more rootless,
- in secure,
- most fluctuant,
- un-shielded,
- in securer,
- un-safest,
- more unshielded,
- un-safer,
- in-securer,
- un-protected,
- un-guarded,
- open attack,
- rickety,
- un-safe,
- un safe,
- un safest,
- unprotected,
- un guarded,
- most rootless.
- unwilling,
- on-the-fence,
- yellow,
- halfhearted,
- wimpy,
- watery,
- irresponsible,
- Shilly-shally,
- shifty,
- undependable,
- double-minded,
- dillydallying,
- hot-and-cold,
- insipid,
- inconsistent,
- shrinking,
- shy.
- vacillant,
- untrusty,
- anile,
- hesitant,
- Claudicant,
- unstable,
- not following,
- insecure,
- uneager,
- sensile,
- tentative,
- yo-yo,
- amoebalike,
- Fluctuant,
- not fixed,
- irresolute,
- lacking confidence,
- unconfident,
- unresolved,
- unsolved,
- YOYO,
- astraddle,
- open to question,
- doubtful,
- betwixt and between,
- indecisive,
- giddy,
- bipolar,
- open to attack,
- laid low,
- yellow-bellied,
- in clouds,
- unassertive,
- changeable,
- faint-hearted,
- unreliable,
- timid,
- up-and-down,
- unassured,
- infirm,
- tottering,
- Unequable,
- unconvinced,
- hemming and hawing,
- Pithless,
- Wabbly,
- uncertain,
- unshielded,
- variable,
- Unhandy,
- in a quandary,
- without belief,
- varying,
- of two minds,
- rootless,
- tippy,
- unsure,
- hot and cold,
- in firm,
- unconcluded,
- in dilemma,
- weakly,
- forceless,
- wiggly,
- halting,
- torn.
- in-effective,
- more faint-hearted,
- more yellow bellied,
- more yellow-bellied,
- in-effectual,
- most faint hearted,
- more forceless,
- lilylivered,
- lily livered,
- invertebrate,
- weak-willed,
- most faint-hearted,
- more yellowbellied,
- weakwilled,
- more pithless,
- most yellowbellied,
- yellowbellied,
- in adequate,
- most pithless,
- in-adequate,
- more amoebalike,
- most forceless,
- most invertebrate,
- weak willed,
- more faint hearted,
- in effectual,
- most amoebalike,
- in effective,
- in-vertebrate,
- yellow bellied,
- most yellow-bellied,
- faint hearted,
- sub missive,
- most yellow bellied,
- more invertebrate,
- in vertebrate.
- most browbeaten,
- co-wed,
- more unassertive,
- more bullied,
- most unassured,
- most unnerved,
- having cold feet,
- un assured,
- more unassured,
- un-nerved,
- more cowed,
- most cowed,
- most badgered,
- more unnerved,
- de mure,
- more browbeaten,
- un-assured,
- re tiring,
- most milquetoast,
- most trembling,
- more cowering,
- more badgered,
- most bullied,
- more trembling,
- most daunted,
- un assertive,
- unnerved,
- un nerved,
- co wed,
- de-mure,
- more daunted,
- un-assertive,
- re-tiring,
- most cowering,
- more milquetoast.
- un truest,
- un-truest,
- un-convincing,
- dis reputable,
- in accurate,
- fly by night,
- under-handed,
- mis taken,
- un-faithful,
- un-truer,
- pre-tended,
- under handed,
- un faithful,
- under hand,
- un-reliable,
- under-hand,
- un truer,
- un reliable,
- un-trustworthy,
- un convincing,
- dis-reputable.
- more unconcluded,
- un solved,
- most unconcluded,
- un answered,
- most pussyfooting,
- un finished,
- most unsolved,
- betwixt between,
- more unsolved,
- un-answered,
- un-concluded,
- in-complete,
- more pussyfooting,
- un concluded,
- un resolved,
- un-solved,
- un-resolved,
- in complete,
- un-finished.
- most teetering,
- unsteadiest,
- un stablest,
- un stabler,
- more weaving,
- more teetering,
- wigglier,
- un-stablest,
- un steadier,
- un-steadiest,
- un-steadier,
- un steadiest,
- un-stabler,
- wiggliest,
- most weaving.
- un trusty,
- un trustiest,
- un confident,
- un-trustier,
- most unconfident,
- more unconfident,
- un-sure,
- un-confident,
- un-trustiest,
- untrustier,
- un sure,
- un trustier,
- mis-trustful,
- mis trustful,
- untrustiest,
- un-trusty.
- most yo yo,
- more yo-yo,
- yo yo,
- most unequable,
- more unequable,
- un equable,
- most yo-yo,
- un-equable,
- most yoyo,
- more yoyo,
- more yo yo.
adv
• off-and-on (adverb) • Other relevant words: (adverb)adv.
• back and forth (adverb) • backward and forward (adverb) • off and on (adverb) • Other relevant words: (adverb)n.
• Other relevant words: (noun) • strong-minded (noun)v.
• changing (verb)- Modulating,
- Modifying,
- Adjusting,
- Transposing,
- Adapting,
- setting,
- Transforming,
- Transfiguring,
- Converting,
- mutating,
- Deviating,
- Diversifying,
- changing,
- altering,
- reforming,
- transiting.
Other synonyms:
• back and forth • indecisive • Other relevant words (noun):- promptly,
- at,
- quiver,
- wandering,
- delay,
- drifting,
- demur,
- brooding,
- dubious,
- debatable,
- aimless,
- flicker,
- amorphous,
- hesitate,
- arguable,
- misgiving,
- frail,
- afloat,
- gone,
- spasmodic,
- soft,
- low,
- flirtatious,
- desultory,
- waver,
- levitating,
- enfeebled,
- debilitated,
- Demurring,
- lightsome,
- weave,
- roving,
- Unstaid,
- faddish,
- uncontrolled,
- hesitation,
- flittering,
- hesitancy,
- suspend,
- fluttering,
- sometimes,
- vibratory,
- light,
- mistrustful,
- unoccupied,
- harmonic,
- wobbly,
- procrastinate,
- resonant,
- namby-pamby,
- doubt,
- puzzling,
- unaligned,
- toying,
- unemployed,
- wavery,
- unrestrained,
- totter,
- oscillatory,
- obscure,
- irregularly,
- wavy,
- undetermined,
- ambiguous,
- eccentric,
- Vibratile,
- rambling,
- shuffling,
- hum and haw,
- moody,
- oscillation,
- rocky,
- open,
- foolish,
- wave,
- suspicious,
- diffidence,
- distrustful,
- periodic,
- impartial,
- coquettish,
- Pausing,
- unprejudiced,
- tergiversating,
- mazy,
- end,
- fear,
- flitter,
- vague,
- unhesitatingly,
- Unsteadfast,
- questionable,
- faltering,
- adrift,
- indisposition,
- scarcely,
- Teetering,
- dithering,
- vacillation,
- alternating,
- hardly,
- unfixed,
- shilly-shallying,
- quavering,
- small,
- vacillate,
- Boggler,
- dizzy,
- spiritless,
- flimsy,
- mind,
- skittish,
- pending,
- non-aligned,
- vagrant,
- non-partisan,
- fluctuate,
- Flopping,
- freakish,
- falter,
- waving,
- chameleonic,
- shaky,
- pause,
- chameleon-like,
- iffy,
- indecision,
- doddering,
- infrequently,
- easily led,
- on the fence,
- reluctance,
- purposeless,
- flutter,
- fence,
- incredulous,
- quivering,
- waffling,
- problematic,
- shapeless,
- fluctuation,
- quicksilver,
- exhausted,
- impetuous,
- boggle,
- pendulating,
- disinclination,
- feeble,
- unanswered,
- frothy,
- indefinite,
- stop,
- linger,
- break,
- hesitance,
- Vicissitudinary,
- tottery,
- independent,
- at loose ends,
- sporadically,
- moot,
- wanton,
- unclear,
- uncommitted,
- be doubtful,
- Libratory,
- unaccountable,
- unbiased,
- Pendular,
- undisciplined,
- pendulous,
- irregular,
- light-minded,
- sickly,
- unpredictable,
- scruple,
- pliant,
- flapping,
- neutral,
- qualm,
- Hovering,
- enigmatic,
- Vacillatory,
- havering,
- sceptical,
- Looming,
- nebulous.
How to use "Vacillating" in context?
When you vacillate, you oscillate back and forth between two ideas or actions. vacillation is a habitual and often subconscious process, but it can also be a sign that you don't have a firm opinion or that you're still thinking about something. vacillating can be frustrating, but it can also be a sign that you're trying to figure out the right thing to do.
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