Synonyms for Hesitant

Synonyms for "hesitant" (167 found)

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Closest matches (34)

Noun(2 words)

address oral inarticulacybalking

afraid agnostic ambiguous ambivalent averse backward bashful boggling canny capricious careful cautious chancy changeable chary circumspect deliberate demurring dicey diffident

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discreet disinclined distrustful dithering

Verb(3 words)

balked begrudged dithered

Adjective(5 words)

balky cautious chary diffident disinclined

Strong matches (50)

doubtful doubting dubious equivocal erratic faltering fearful fickle fluctuating gingerly guarded halting heedful hesitating incalculable incredulous indecisive indefinite indemonstrable indisposed

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insecure irresolute jibbing judiciousleaving out nothingloath lukewarm mealy-mouthed mindful modest noncommittalof two mindson guard

Verb(3 words)

faltered hesitated murmured

Noun(8 words)

flinching fumblinghalting speechlearymore stammeringmost stammeringmumbling phrasemurmuring

Adjective(5 words)

grudging hesitating inarticulatemild uncooperativenessmumbling tone

Interjection(1 words)

hmm

Related words (83)

overlooking no possibilitypause pawky politic polysemous prudent qualmish queasy regardful reluctant safe scrupling scrupulous self-consciousshilly shallyingshilly-shallying shrinking shy skeptical slow

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Adjective(13 words)

phonetic hesitationreticent shaky shyshy personskittish tentativetentative suggestiontimorous tremulous uncertain vacillantwavering note

Noun(5 words)

quavering reconsidering shuffling stumblingvery doubtful

Verb(4 words)

scrupled stuttered vacillated waffled

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

5 entries

attitudebehavioral traitcommunication stylemental statespeech pattern

More specific

4 entries

hesitant answerreluctant respondersoft spoken responsetentative decision

Collocations

5 entries

hesitant answerhesitant decisionhesitant learnerhesitant responsehesitant student

Inflections

2 entries

more hesitantmost hesitant

Derivations

6 entries

hesitance hesitantly hesitate hesitationmore hesitantmost hesitant

similar

1 entries

indecisive

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I'm rather hesitant about asking him a favor.

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I'm a little hesitant to ask a favor of that person.

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I'm a little hesitant about asking her for a favor.

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Tom is hesitant to visit Mary in the hospital.

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Hesitant