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Hesitating definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HES'ITATING, ppr. Doubting; pausing; stammering.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly [syn: hesitant, hesitating]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hesitate Hes"i*tate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hesitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Hesitating.] [L. haesitatus, p. p. of haesitare, intens. fr. haerere to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold fast. Cf. Aghast, Gaze, Adhere.] 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.

Moby Thesaurus

agnostic, ambiguous, balbutient, bashful, boggling, capricious, cautious, chancy, changeable, demurring, dicey, diffident, doubting, equivocal, erratic, faltering, fickle, halting, hesitant, incalculable, indecisive, indemonstrable, irresolute, jibbing, modest, polysemous, qualmish, scrupling, scrupulous, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shy, skeptical, squeamish, stammering, sticking, stickling, straining, stumbling, stuttering, tentative, timid, touch-and-go, unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable, unconvinced, undivinable, unforeseeable, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unsure, unverifiable, variable, wavering, whimsical