You should make sure of the fact without hesitation.
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Hesitation
Synonyms for "hesitation" (187 found)
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Noun(5 words)
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67 translations across 32 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- drojë noun (act of hesitating)
- ndrojtje noun (doubt; vacillation)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὄκνος noun (act of hesitating)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- tərəddüd noun (act of hesitating)
Bulgarian
3 entries- заекване noun (faltering in speech)
- колебание noun (act of hesitating)
- нерешителност noun (act of hesitating)
Catalan
2 entries- hesitació noun (act of hesitating)
- vacil·lació noun (act of hesitating)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 口吃 noun (faltering in speech)
- 吞吐 noun (faltering in speech)
- 彷徨 noun (act of hesitating)
- 支吾 noun (faltering in speech)
Czech
2 entries- váhání noun (act of hesitating)
- zaváhání noun (faltering in speech)
Dutch
1 entries- aarzeling noun (act of hesitating)
Esperanto
2 entries- hezitado noun (doubt; vacillation)
- ĉi hezito noun (act of hesitating)
Finnish
3 entries- empiminen noun (act of hesitating)
- epäröinti noun (act of hesitating)
- takeltelu noun (faltering in speech)
French
1 entries- hésitation noun (act of hesitating)
Galician
1 entries- vacilación noun (act of hesitating)
German
3 entries- Zögern noun (doubt; vacillation)
- Zögern noun (act of hesitating)
- Zögern noun (faltering in speech)
Greek
1 entries- δισταγμός noun (act of hesitating)
Hindi
2 entries- झिझक noun (faltering in speech)
- संकोच noun (act of hesitating)
Hungarian
3 entries- bizonytalankodás noun (act of hesitating)
- habozás noun (act of hesitating)
- hezitálás noun (act of hesitating)
Indonesian
1 entries- keragu-raguan noun (act of hesitating)
Italian
1 entries- esitazione noun (act of hesitating)
Japanese
2 entries- ためらい noun (act of hesitating)
- 躊躇 noun (act of hesitating)
Latin
2 entries- cunctātiō noun (act of hesitating)
- haesitātiō noun (act of hesitating)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Zécken noun (act of hesitating)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- dilwasî noun (act of hesitating)
- dudilî noun (act of hesitating)
- heziqîn noun (faltering in speech)
Old English
1 entries- ġewand noun (act of hesitating)
Polish
2 entries- niezdecydowanie noun (act of hesitating)
- wahanie noun (act of hesitating)
Portuguese
1 entries- hesitação noun (act of hesitating)
Romanian
2 entries- ezitare noun (act of hesitating)
- șovăială noun (act of hesitating)
Russian
1 entries- нереши́тельность noun (act of hesitating)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- sgogarsaich noun (act of hesitating)
- sòradh noun (act of hesitating)
- sòradh noun (faltering in speech)
Spanish
4 entries- dudas noun (act of hesitating)
- hesitación noun (act of hesitating)
- titubeo noun (act of hesitating)
- vacilación noun (act of hesitating)
Swedish
1 entries- tvekan noun (act of hesitating)
Tamil
3 entries- தடுமாற்றம் noun (faltering in speech)
- தயக்கம் noun (doubt; vacillation)
- தயக்கம் noun (act of hesitating)
Turkish
3 entries- duraksama noun (doubt; vacillation)
- tereddüt noun (doubt; vacillation)
- tereddüt noun (act of hesitating)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
A moment's hesitation may cost a pilot his life.
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Without a moment's hesitation, they took drastic action against the conspiracy.
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After some hesitation, he laid the book on the desk.
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