 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
halting
adjective
1: disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game
leg" [syn: {crippled}, {halt}, {lame}, {game}]
2: fragmentary or halting from emotional strain; "uttered a few
broken words of sorrow"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Halt \Halt\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Halted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Halting}.]
1. To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease
progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come
to a stop; to stand still.
2. To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to
hesitate; to be uncertain.
How long halt ye between two opinions? --1 Kings
xviii. 21.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
180 Moby Thesaurus words for "halting":
Latinate, ambidextrous, ambling, awkward, bad, balbutient,
bombastic, broken, build up, bumbling, capricious, careening,
castrated, catchy, cautious, choppy, circumspect, claudicant,
clumsy, construct, cramped, crawling, creeping,
creeping like snail, crippled, cumbrous, deliberate, desultory,
deviative, disabled, disconnected, discontinuous, double,
double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued,
doublehearted, easy, eccentric, elephantine, emasculated, erect,
erratic, establish, faltering, faulty, fitful, flagging,
flickering, fluctuating, foot-dragging, forced, formal, game,
gauche, gentle, gradual, guinde, guttering, halt, hamstrung,
handicapped, heavy, herky-jerky, hesitant, hesitating, heteroclite,
hobbled, hobbling, hypocritical, idle, immethodical, incapacitated,
inconstant, indecisive, indolent, inept, inkhorn, intermittent,
intermitting, irregular, irresolute, jerky, labored, lame, languid,
languorous, lazy, leaden, left-handed, leisurely, limping,
lumbering, lurching, maimed, maladroit, moderate, nonuniform,
of two minds, patchy, poking, poky, pompous, ponderous, rambling,
relaxed, reluctant, rough, sauntering, scrappy, sesquipedalian,
set up, shifting, shilly-shallying, shuffling, slack, slothful,
slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling,
slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced,
slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish,
snail-paced, snaillike, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic,
spastic, spavined, sporadic, spotty, staggering, stammering, stiff,
stilted, strolling, stumbling, stuttering, tentative, toddling,
tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turgid, turtlelike, uncertain,
unequal, uneven, unhandy, unhappy, unhurried, unmethodical,
unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady,
unsystematic, unwieldy, vacillatory, variable, veering, waddling,
wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly, wooden
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