| Main Entry: | to-and-fro |
| 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, irresolution, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, tentativeness, timidity, timidness, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Main Entry: | indecisiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hesitation |
Synonyms: |
averseness, dawdling, delay, delaying, demurral, doubt, dubiety, equivocation, faltering, fluctuation, fumbling, hemming and hawing, hesitancy, indecision, indisposition, irresoluteness, irresolution, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, tentativeness, timidity, timidness, to-and-fro, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Notes: | indecision describes a general state or condition, one that can characterize a body or group, whereas indecisiveness describes an individual character trait |
| Main Entry: | irresoluteness |
| 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, irresolution, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, tentativeness, timidity, timidness, to-and-fro, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | tentativeness |
| 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, irresolution, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, timidity, timidness, to-and-fro, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Main Entry: | timidness |
| 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, irresolution, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, tentativeness, timidity, 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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