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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
hesitating
    adj 1: lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or
           decide quickly or firmly [syn: hesitant, hesitating]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hesitating \hesitating\ adj.
   holding back because of doubt or lack of confidence.

   Syn: hesitant, indecisive.
        [WordNet 1.5]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hesitate \Hes"i*tate\, v. i. [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.]
   [1913 Webster]
   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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To stammer; to falter in speaking.

   Syn: To doubt; waver; scruple; deliberate; demur; falter;
        stammer.
        [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for hesitating:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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