Word Meanings - VACILLATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VACILLATING)

• Fickle
• Fanciful
• fitful
• capricious
• irresolute
• changeable
• vacillating
• mutable
• unreliable
• veering
• shifting
• variable
• restless
• inconstant
• unstable
• Tottering
• Nodding
• faltering
• shaky
• reeling
• ruinous

Related words: (words related to VACILLATING)

• 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.
• CAPRICIOUS
  Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful;
• MUTABLE
  1. Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature. Things of the most accidental and mutable nature. South. 2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle. "Most mutable wishes." Byron. Syn.
• SHIFT
  divide; akin to LG. & D. schiften to divide, distinguish, part Icel. skipta to divide, to part, to shift, to change, Dan skifte, Sw. skifta, and probably to Icel. skifa to cut into slices, as n., a 1. To divide; to distribute; to apportion. To
• 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,
• REELECT
  To elect again; as, to reëlect the former governor.
• 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.
• SHIFTER
  An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions. An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another. A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc. (more info)
• 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.
• FICKLE
  Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden. Syn. -- Wavering; irresolute; unsettled;
• SHIFTLESS
  Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless
• 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.
• TOTTERY
  Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson.
• FANCIFUL
  1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful
• REELECTION
  Election a second time, or anew; as, the reëlection of a former chief.
• VARIABLENESS
  The quality or state of being variable; variability. James i.
• TREELESS
  Destitute of trees. C. Kingsley.
• KREEL
  See CREEL
• PRUINOUS
  Frosty; pruinose.
• FREELTE
  Frailty. Chaucer.
• TITTER-TOTTER
  See TEETER
• CRESTLESS
  Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth. "Crestless yeomen." Shak.
• UNSHIFTABLE
  1. That may 2. Shiftless; helpless.
• SCENESHIFTER
  One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.
• COMMUTABLE
  Capable of being commuted or interchanged. The predicate and subject are not commutable. Whately.