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[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