Synonyms for Vacillating

Synonyms for "vacillating" (144 found)

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Closest matches (29)

adrift afloat alternating amorphous capricious changeable changeful coquettish desultory deviable dizzy doubtful eccentric erratic faddishfast and loosefence fickle fitful flickering

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flighty flirtatious flitting

Verb(5 words)

alternate dither dithered erratic falter

Noun(1 words)

dithering

Strong matches (43)

fluctuant fluctuating fluctuational flutter freakish giddy harmonic impetuous impulsive inconsistent inconstant indecisive indefinite infirm insecure irregular irresolute irresponsible libratory light

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mazy mercurial mind moody mutable nutational oscillating oscillatory pendular pendulating pendulous periodic quicksilver

Verb(8 words)

fluctuate fluctuating hesitant hesitate irregular irresolute oscillate oscillating

Noun(1 words)

hesitating

Adjective(1 words)

pendulum-swinging

Related words (72)

rambling resonant restless rocky roving scatterbrained shaky shapeless shifting shiftyshilly shallyingshilly-shally shilly-shallying shuffling skittish spasmodic spineless toying unaccountable uncertain

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Noun(3 words)

seesawing waffling wobbling

Verb(9 words)

shifting uncertain unreliable unsteady varying waffled waver wavering weigh

Adjective(2 words)

vacillant wavering

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

9 entries

action verbbehavioral irregularitychange of stancecognitive processcognitive verbdispositionopinion verbstate of mindvariability

More specific

10 entries

dither dithering erratic falter faltering oscillating teeter unsteady varying waffle

Collocations

11 entries

ambivalence doubt hesitancy hesitation indecision uncertaintyvacillating moodvacillating opinionsvacillating policyvacillating responsesvacillating stance

Inflections

4 entries

more vacillatingmost vacillatingvacillated vacillates

Derivations

5 entries

vacillate vacillatingly vacillation vacillator vacillatory

similar

1 entries

irresolute

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

We would appreciate if the council would stop vacillating and make a choice already.

Source: tatoeba (10649794)

After a lot of vacillating, I agreed to his request.

Source: tatoeba (12995640)

It was vacillatings, misgivings, and deliberate calculations of this kind that paved the way […]

Source: wiktionary

Vacillating