What does "hesitant" mean?

Tending to hesitate, wait, or proceed with caution or reservation.

Hesitant

Common synonyms include: address oral inarticulacy, afraid, agnostic, ambiguous, ambivalent, averse.

/ˈhɛzɪtənt/ adj

adj ·Moderate ·High school level

Adjective

1
Tending to hesitate, wait, or proceed with caution or reservation.
"I am hesitant to recommend him as a manager because he has a short temper."

Adjective

1
lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly wordnet

"I'm rather hesitant about asking him a favor."

Borrowed from Latin haesitans, present participle of haesitare (“to stick fast, to hesitate”).