Word Meanings - HESITATINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
With hesitation or doubt.
Related words: (words related to HESITATINGLY)
- HESITATION
1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift. - DOUBTFULLY
In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden. - DOUBT
duten, douten, OF. duter, doter, douter, F. douter, fr. L. dubitare; 1. To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or - DOUBTFULNESS
1. State of being doubtful. 2. Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." Locke. 3. Uncertainty of event or issue. Bacon. - DOUBTFUL
1. Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure. Methinks I should - DOUBTOUS
Doubtful. Chaucer. - DOUBTABLE
1. Capable of being doubted; questionable. 2. Worthy of being feared; redoubtable. - DOUBTING
That is uncertain; that distrusts or hesitates; having doubts. -- Doubt"ing*ly, adv. - DOUBTANCE
State of being in doubt; uncertainty; doubt. Chaucer. - DOUBTLESS
Free from fear or suspicion. Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure. Shak. - DOUBTER
One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples. - DOUBTLESSLY
Unquestionably. Beau. & Fl. - REDOUBTABLE
Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; - REDOUBT
reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back; cf. F. réduit, also fr. LL. A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected - MISDOUBT
To be suspicious of; to have suspicion. I do not misdoubt my wife. Shak. - REDOUBTING
Reverence; honor. In redoutyng of Mars and of his glory. Chaucer. - UNDOUBTED
Not doubted; not called in question; indubitable; indisputable; as, undoubted proof; undoubted hero. -- Un*doubt"ed*ly, adv. - MISDOUBTFUL
Misgiving; hesitating. "Her misdoubtful mind." Spenser. - UNDOUBTABLE
Indubitable. - REDOUBTED
Formidable; dread. "Some redoubled knight." Spenser. Lord regent, and redoubted Burgandy. Shak.