About The Word Irresolute

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Irresolute

Irresolute Meaning & Definition
Irresolute Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Irresolute?

[adj] lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly; "stood irresolute waiting for some inspiration"
[adj] uncertain how to act or proceed; "the committee was timid and mediocre and irresolute"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Irresolute: discouraged | hesitant | hesitating | indecisive | infirm | unstable | vacillant | vacillating | wavering | weak-kneed

Related Terms | Find terms related to Irresolute: adrift | afloat | agnostic | alternating | ambiguous | ambitendent | ambivalent | amorphous | at loose ends | bland | capricious | chancy | changeable | changeful | changing | desultory | deviable | dicey | dizzy | double-minded | doubting | dubious | eccentric | equivocal | erratic | faltering | fast and loose | fence-sitting | fence-straddling | fickle | fitful | flickering | flighty | flitting | fluctuating | freakish | giddy | halfhearted | halting | hesitant | hesitating | impetuous | impulsive | incalculable | inconsistent | inconstant | indecisive | indemonstrable | infirm | infirm of purpose | infirm of will | insipid | irregular | irresolved | irresponsible | mazy | mercurial | milk-and-water | milky | moody | mugwumpian | mugwumpish | mushy | mutable | neutral | of two minds | polysemous | rambling | restless | roving | scatterbrained | shapeless | shifting | shifty | shilly-shallying | shuffling | skeptical | spasmodic | spineless | tasteless | tentative | touch-and-go | unaccountable | uncertain | unconfirmable | uncontrolled | unconvinced | undecided | undependable | undetermined | undisciplined | undivinable | unfixed | unforeseeable | unpersuaded | unpredictable | unprovable | unreliable | unresolved | unrestrained | unsettled | unstable | unstable as water | unstaid | unsteadfast | unsteady | unsure | unverifiable | vacillating | vacillatory | vagrant | vapid | variable | vicissitudinary | vicissitudinous | volatile | wandering | wanton | watery | wavering | wavery | wavy | wayward | whimsical | wishy-washy | wobbly

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Irresolute In Webster's Dictionary

\Ir*res"o*lute\, a. [Pref. ir- not + resolute: cf. F. irr['e]solu, L. irresolutus not loosened.] Not resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to doubt or irresolution. Weak and irresolute is man. --Cowper. Syn: Wavering; vacillating; undetermined; undecided; unsettled; fickle; changeable; inconstant. -- {Ir*res"o*lute*ly}, adv. -- {Ir*res"o*lute*ness}, n.

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