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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

hesitant
    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

Hesitant \Hes"i*tant\, a. [L. haesitans, p. pr. of haesitare:
   cf. F. h['e]sitant. See Hesitate.]
   1. Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Unready in speech. --Baxter.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Hesitant:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

afraid, agnostic, ambiguous, ambivalent, averse, backward, bashful, boggling, canny, capricious, careful, cautious, chancy, changeable, circumspect, deliberate, demurring, dicey, diffident, discreet, dithering, doubting, equivocal, erratic, faltering, fickle, fluctuating, gingerly, guarded, halting, heedful, hesitating, incalculable, indecisive, indefinite, indemonstrable, indisposed, irresolute, jibbing, judicious, leaving out nothing, loath, mindful, modest, noncommittal, of two minds, on guard, overlooking no possibility, pause, pawky, politic, polysemous, prudent, qualmish, regardful, reluctant, safe, scrupling, scrupulous, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shy, skeptical, slow to act, squeamish, stammering, sticking, stickling, straining, stuttering, tentative, thorough, timid, touch-and-go, unaccountable, unadventurous, uncertain, uncommunicative, unconfirmable, unconvinced, undaring, undecided, undivinable, uneager, unenterprising, unforeseeable, unpersuaded, unprecipitate, unpredictable, unprovable, unresolved, unsettled, unsure, unverifiable, unwilling, vacillating, vacillatory, variable, wavering, whimsical, wobbly

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