| Main Entry: | irresolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hesitation |
Synonyms: |
averseness, dawdling, delay, delaying, demurral, doubt, dubiety, equivocation, faltering, fluctuation, fumbling, hemming and hawing, hesitancy, indecision, indecisiveness, indisposition, irresoluteness, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, tentativeness, timidity, timidness, to-and-fro, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Concept: | Irresolution. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of volition |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision; indetermination, undetermination; unsettlement; uncertainty; demur, suspense; hesitating, hesitation, hesitancy; vacillation; changeableness; fluctuation; alternation (oscillation); caprice., fickleness, levity, legerete; pliancy (softness); weakness; timidity; cowardice; half measures., waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; shuttlecock, butterfly; wimp; doughface [U.S.].
-verbs
be irresolute; hang in suspense, keep in suspense; leave "ad referendum"; think twice about, pause; dawdle (inactivity); remain neuter; dillydally, hesitate, boggle, hover, dacker, hum and haw, demur, not know one's own mind; debate, balance; dally with, coquet with; will and will not, chaser-balancer; go halfway, compromise, make a compromise; be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man; be afraid; let "I dare not" wait upon "I would" [Macbeth]; falter, waver, vacillate; change; retract; fluctuate; pendulate; alternate (oscillate); keep off and on, play fast and loose; blow hot and cold (caprice)., shuffle, palter, blink; trim.
-adjectives
irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted; undecided, unresolved, undetermined; shilly-shally; fidgety, tremulous; hesitating; off one's balance; at a loss (uncertain)., vacillating; unsteady (changeable); unsteadfast, fickle, without ballast; capricious; volatile, frothy; light, lightsome, lightminded; giddy; fast and loose., weak, feeble-minded, frail; timid, wimpish, wimpy; cowardly; dough-faced [U.S.]; facile; pliant (soft); unable to say "no", easygoing, revocable, reversible.
-adverbs
irresolutely; irresolved, irresolvedly; in faltering accents; off and on; from pillar to post; seesaw.
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Antonyms: |
resolution, obstinacy |
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| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of faith, conviction; questioning |
Synonyms: |
agnosticism, ambiguity, apprehension, confusion, demurral, difficulty, diffidence, dilemma, disbelief, discredit, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, dubiousness, faithlessness, faltering, fear, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, incredulity, indecision, irresolution, lack of confidence, misgiving, mistrust, perplexity, problem, qualm, quandary, rejection, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, suspense, suspicion, uncertainty, vacillation, wavering |
Antonyms: |
belief, certainty, confidence, dependence, faith, reliance, trust |
| Main Entry: | hesitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | waiting; uncertainty |
Synonyms: |
averseness, dawdling, delay, delaying, demurral, doubt, dubiety, equivocation, faltering, fluctuation, fumbling, hemming and hawing, hesitancy, indecision, indecisiveness, indisposition, irresolution, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Notes: | hesitancy is a quality or state, while hesitation is an act |
Antonyms: |
certainty, eagerness, go, perseverance, sureness |
| Main Entry: | instability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imbalance, inconstancy |
Synonyms: |
alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness |
Antonyms: |
balance, constancy, soundness, stability, steadfastness |
| Main Entry: | suspense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
Synonyms: |
anxiety, apprehension, chiller, cliff-hanger, cloak and dagger, confusion, dilemma, doubt, eagerness, expectancy, expectation, grabber, hesitancy, hesitation, impatience, indecision, indecisiveness, insecurity, irresolution, page-turner, perplexity, potboiler, tension, thriller, uncertainty, wavering |
Antonyms: |
knowledge |
| Main Entry: | uncertainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt, changeableness |
Synonyms: |
ambiguity, ambivalence, anxiety, bewilderment, concern, confusion, conjecture, contingency, dilemma, disquiet, distrust, doubtfulness, dubiety, guesswork, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, inconclusiveness, indecision, irresolution, lack of confidence, misgiving, mistrust, mystification, oscillation, perplexity, puzzle, puzzlement, qualm, quandary, query, questionableness, reserve, scruple, skepticism, suspicion, trouble, uneasiness, unpredictability, vagueness, wonder, worry |
Antonyms: |
certainty, definiteness, security, sureness |
| Main Entry: | weakness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defect, proneness |
Synonyms: |
Achilles heel, appetite*, blemish, chink in armor, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, enervation, failing, faintness, fault, feebleness, flaw, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, impairment, imperfection, impotence, inclination, inconstancy, indecision, infirmity, instability, invalidity, irresolution, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, powerlessness, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot, sore point, taste*, vice, vitiation, vulnerability |
Antonyms: |
strength, strong point |
| Main Entry: | hesitancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt |
Synonyms: |
indecision, irresolution, reluctance, skepticism, uncertainty |
| Main Entry: | indecision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hesitation |
Synonyms: |
doubt, indecisiveness, irresolution, uncertainty, vacillation |