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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly;
[syn: hesitant, hesitating]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

hesitating \hesitating\ adj. holding back because of doubt or lack of confidence. Syn: hesitant, indecisive. [WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hesitate \Hes"i*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hesitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Hesitating.] [L. haesitatus, p. p. of haesitare, intens. fr. haerere to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold fast. Cf. Aghast, Gaze, Adhere.] [1913 Webster] 1. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. To stammer; to falter in speaking. Syn: To doubt; waver; scruple; deliberate; demur; falter; stammer. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hesitating adj 1: lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly [syn: hesitant, hesitating]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

57 Moby Thesaurus words for "hesitating": agnostic, ambiguous, balbutient, bashful, boggling, capricious, cautious, chancy, changeable, demurring, dicey, diffident, doubting, equivocal, erratic, faltering, fickle, halting, hesitant, incalculable, indecisive, indemonstrable, irresolute, jibbing, modest, polysemous, qualmish, scrupling, scrupulous, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shy, skeptical, squeamish, stammering, sticking, stickling, straining, stumbling, stuttering, tentative, timid, touch-and-go, unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable, unconvinced, undivinable, unforeseeable, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unsure, unverifiable, variable, wavering, whimsical