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[syn: vacillant, vacillating, wavering]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Vacillate \Vac"il*late\ (v[a^]s"[i^]l*l[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Vacillated (v[a^]s"[i^]l*l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
Vacillating.] [L. vacillare, vacillatum; cf. Skr. va[~n]c.]
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1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to
waver.
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[A spheroid] is always liable to shift and
vacillatefrom one axis to another. --Paley.
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2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or
inconstant; to waver.
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Syn: See Fluctuate.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Vacillating \Vac"il*la`ting\, a.
Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. --Tennyson. --
Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
vacillating
adj 1: uncertain in purpose or action [syn: vacillant,
vacillating, wavering]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
98 Moby Thesaurus words for "vacillating":
adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, capricious, changeable,
changeful, coquettish, desultory, deviable, dizzy, eccentric,
erratic, faddish, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering,
flighty, flirtatious, flitting, fluctuant, fluctuating,
fluctuational, freakish, giddy, harmonic, impetuous, impulsive,
inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, irregular,
irresolute, irresponsible, libratory, light, mazy, mercurial,
moody, nutational, oscillating, oscillatory, pendular, pendulating,
pendulous, periodic, quicksilver, rambling, resonant, restless,
roving, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shilly-shally,
shilly-shallying, shuffling, skittish, spasmodic, spineless,
toying, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable,
undisciplined, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained,
unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast,
unsteady, vacillatory, vagrant, variable, versatile, vibratile,
vibrating, vibratory, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile,
wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical,
wishy-washy, wobbly