Word Meanings - HESITATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HESITATION)
- Backwardness
- Reluctance
- slowness
- shyness
- hesitation
- unwillingness
- repugnance
- Doubt
- Dubiousness
- dubitation
- scruple
- suspense
- distrust
- suspicion
- perplexity
- uncertainty
- ambiguity
- difficulty
- indecision
- Scruple
- Misgiving
- doubt
- qualm
- reluctance
- question
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HESITATION)
Related words: (words related to HESITATION)
- STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - QUALM
1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve . Chaucer. 2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms of heartsick agony." Milton. 3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. For who, - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - ENDORSER
See INDORSER - DUBIOUSNESS
State of being dubious. - ASSENTATORY
Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv. - AFFIRMATIVELY
In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively. - ASSERT
self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to - HESITATION
1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift. - ALLOWEDLY
By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. - ASSERTORY
Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton. - ASSENTER
One who assents. - DISTRUSTLESS
Free from distrust. Shenstone. - ALLOW
allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend - SCRUPLE
twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will - MISGIVING
Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South. - ALLOWER
1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits. - DOUBTFULLY
In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden. - DUBITATION
Act of doubting; doubt. Sir T. Scott. - DECIDER
One who decides. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - DENUNCIATE
To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - HALLOW
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - SALLOWISH
Somewhat sallow. Dickens. - KATASTATE
A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic. - REDOUBTABLE
Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; - BAYOU STATE
Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous. - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.