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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hesitate \Hes"i*tate\, verb (used without an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
hesitating \hesitating\ adjective holding back because of doubt or lack of confidence.
Syn: hesitant, indecisive. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hesitating
adjective: lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly; "stood irresolute waiting for some inspiration" [syn: {hesitant}, {irresolute}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "hesitating": 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
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