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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, capricious, changeable, changeful, coquettish, desultory, deviable, dizzy, eccentric, erratic, faddish, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flirtatious, flitting, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, freakish, giddy, harmonic, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, libratory, light, mazy, mercurial, moody, nutational, oscillating, oscillatory, pendular, pendulating, pendulous, periodic, quicksilver, rambling, resonant, restless, roving, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shuffling, skittish, spasmodic, spineless, toying, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillatory, vagrant, variable, versatile, vibratile, vibrating, vibratory, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbly
Dictionary Results for vacillating:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
vacillating
    adj 1: uncertain in purpose or action [syn: vacillant,
           vacillating, wavering]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vacillate \Vac"il*late\ (v[a^]s"[i^]l*l[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p.
   p. Vacillated (v[a^]s"[i^]l*l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
   Vacillating.] [L. vacillare, vacillatum; cf. Skr. va[~n]c.]
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   1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to
      waver.
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            [A spheroid] is always liable to shift and
            vacillatefrom one axis to another.    --Paley.
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   2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or
      inconstant; to waver.
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   Syn: See Fluctuate.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vacillating \Vac"il*la`ting\, a.
   Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. --Tennyson. --
   Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.
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