Word Meanings - FALTERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." Milton. -- n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FALTERING)

• Lame
• Weak
• faltering
• hobbling
• hesitating
• ineffective
• impotent
• crippled
• halt
• defective
• imperfect
• Tottering
• Nodding
• shaky
• vacillating
• reeling
• ruinous

Related words: (words related to FALTERING)

• NODDING
  Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• VACILLATING
  Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.
• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• CRIPPLY
  Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. Mrs. Trollope.
• TOTTER
  1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• CRIPPLENESS
  Lameness. Johnson.
• DEFECTIVE
  Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied
• REELECT
  To elect again; as, to reëlect the former governor.
• HESITATINGLY
  With hesitation or doubt.
• IMPERFECT
  1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential
• NODDY
  1. A simpleton; a fool. L'Estrange. Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus. The arctic fulmar . Sometimes also applied to other sea birds. 3. An old game at cards. Halliwell. 4. A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle. 5. An inverted pendulum
• VACILLATION
  1. The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. His vacillations, or an alternation of knowledge and doubt. Jer. Taylor.
• SHAKY
  1. Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. Thackeray. 2. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. Gwilt. 3. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit.
• HOBBLEBUSH
  A low bush having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.
• INEFFECTIVE
  Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.
• IMPOTENT
  Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren. (more info) 1. Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble;
• NODDER
  One who nods; a drowsy person.
• VACILLATE
  1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. Paley. 2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver. Syn. -- See Fluctuate.
• TREELESS
  Destitute of trees. C. Kingsley.
• KREEL
  See CREEL
• PRUINOUS
  Frosty; pruinose.
• FREELTE
  Frailty. Chaucer.
• TITTER-TOTTER
  See TEETER