| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | The act of hesitating or state of being hesitant: hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, indecisiveness, irresoluteness, irresolution, pause, tentativeness, timidity, timidness, to-and-fro, vacillation. See DECIDE. | | VERB: | To be irresolute in acting or doing: dither, falter, halt2, hesitate, pause, stagger, vacillate, waver, wobble. See DECIDE. | | ADJECTIVE: | Given to or exhibiting hesitation: halting, hesitant, indecisive, irresolute, pendulous, tentative, timid, vacillant, vacillatory. See DECIDE.
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