Word Meanings - HESITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

haerere to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold fast. Cf. Aghast, 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

Additional info about word: HESITATE

haerere to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold fast. Cf. Aghast, 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. 2. To stammer; to falter in speaking. Syn. -- To doubt; waver; scruple; deliberate; demur; falter; stammer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HESITATE)

• Boggle
• Halt
• hesitate
• dubitate
• falter
• blunder
• blotch
• botch
• spoil
• mar
• Demur
• Dubitate
• halt
• pause
• doubt
• scruple
• object
• Doubt Dubitate
• vacillate
• waver
• demur
• faulter
• hobble
• slip
• stammer
• flinch
• Fluctuate
• Waver
• oscillate
• vary
• veer

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HESITATE)

• Decide
• determine
• resolve
• assent

Related words: (words related to HESITATE)

• DEMURE
  good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
• BOGGLE
  1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• BLOTCH
  A large pustule, or a coarse eruption. Foul scurf and blotches him defile. Thomson. (more info) black, as bleach is akin to bleak. See Black, a., or cf. Blot a 1. A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• WAVERER
  One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• SCRUPLE
  twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• STAMMERING
  Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. -- Stam"mer*ing*ly, adv.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• BOGGLER
  One who boggles.
• DECIDER
  One who decides.
• BOTCHERY
  A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
• OBJECT
  before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
• DECIDEMENT
  Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;