hesitant

hesitant
adj
1. pausing, halting, stopping, hesitating, hesitative; waiting, delaying, stalling, dragging, lagging, dallying; tardy, dilatory, deferring, postponing, procrastinating, procrastinative, cunctating, cunc-tatious, cunctatory.
2. undecided, unresolved, unsettled; uncertain, unsure, doubtful, dubious; indecisive, indefinite, irresolute, go-slow, indeterminate; wavering, hovering, fluctuating, wobbling, faltering; alternating, vacillating, vacillant, oscillating, oscillatory; shilly-shallying, shifting, seesawing; debating, deliberating, weighing; demurring, scrupling, boggling; equivocating, equivocal, quibbling, evasive; inconstant, changeable, fickle.
3. disinclined, unwilling, reluctant, loath, half-hearted; constrained, restrained, reserved; timid, shy, bashful, fidgety, tremulous, diffident.

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  • hesitant — [adj] uncertain, waiting afraid, averse, backward, dawdling, delaying, diffident, disinclined, doubtful, doubting, faltering, half hearted, halting, hanging back, hesitating, indecisive, irresolute, lacking confidence, lazy, loath, reluctant, shy …   New thesaurus

  • hesitant — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ slow to act or speak through indecision or reluctance. DERIVATIVES hesitance noun hesitancy noun hesitantly adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • hesitant — [hez′i tənt] adj. [L haesitans: see HESITANCY] hesitating or undecided; vacillating; doubtful SYN. RELUCTANT hesitantly adv …   English World dictionary

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