About The Word Hesitation

Bay Area Crosswords

Learn about the word Hesitation to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Hesitation definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.

Hesitation

Hesitation Meaning & Definition
Hesitation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Hesitation?

[n] the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech"
[n] a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "after some hesitation he agreed"
[n] indecision in speech or action

Synonyms | Synonyms for Hesitation: disinclination | falter | faltering | hesitancy | indisposition | reluctance | vacillation | waver | wavering

Related Terms | Find terms related to Hesitation: abeyance | averseness | backwardness | balbuties | bashfulness | boggle | boggling | break | caesura | calculation | canniness | capriciousness | care | careful consideration | carefulness | caution | cautiousness | cease-fire | chance | chanciness | changeableness | circumspection | compunction | courtesan | day off | delay | deliberate stages | deliberateness | deliberation | demimondaine | demimonde | demirep | demur | demurral | diffidence | dilatoriness | discretion | doubt | drop | dubiety | dysphemia | erraticism | erraticness | Fabian policy | falter | faltering | fancy woman | fickleness | gingerliness | guardedness | hedge | hedging | heed | heedfulness | hesitance | hesitancy | hesitating | hetaera | hold-off | holiday | incalculability | incertitude | indecision | indecisiveness | indemonstrability | indeterminacy | indetermination | indeterminism | indisposition | interim | interlude | intermezzo | intermission | intermittence | interruption | interval | irresolution | judiciousness | kept | lapse | laxness | layoff | letup | luck | lull | Micawberism | mindfulness | mistrust | modesty | mugwump | objection | palilalia | pause | pawkiness | prior consultation | procrastination | protest | prudence | prudentialness | qualm | qualm of conscience | qualmishness | randomness | recess | recoil | regardfulness | reluctance | remission | remissness | respite | rest | safeness | safety first | scruple | scrupulosity | scrupulousness | shilly-shally | shilly-shallying | shrinking | shyness | slackness | slowness | slowness to act | solicitude | stall | stammer | stammering | stand-down | stay | stickling | stutter | stuttering | suspense | suspensefulness | suspension | temporization | tentativeness | thoroughness | to-and-fro | traulism | truce | unaccountability | uncertainness | uncertainty | uncertainty principle | uncommunicativeness | undecidedness | undeterminedness | unforeseeableness | unprecipitateness | unpredictability | unprovability | unsureness | unverifiability | vacation | vacillation | wavering | whimsicality | whore

See Also | indecision | indecisiveness | irresolution | pause | sloth | slothfulness | unwillingness

Hesitation In Webster's Dictionary

\Hes`i*ta"tion\, n. [L. haesitatio: cf. F. h['e]sitation.] 1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. --Swift.

More Crossword Puzzle Words

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Cross Word Of The Day

  • Wasting ‐ a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse [n]…
  • Culicidae ‐ mosquitoes
  • Hydroxyacetic acid ‐ a translucent crystalline compound found in sugar cane and sugar…
  • Vesuvius ‐ a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; erupted…
  • Starwort ‐ low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped…
  • Fraser fir ‐ small fast-growing but short-lived fir of southern Alleghenies…
  • Inexorability ‐ mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or…
  • Anti-semitic ‐ discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion [adj]…
  • Katharobe ‐ an organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organic…
  • Synagrops ‐ a genus of…