wavering

n. hesitation; vacillation; fluctuation

adj. vacillant, not certain in objective or action

v. sway, oscillate, vacillate, fluctuate; blink, flicker (as of light); wobble, tremble; collapse; begin to fail; hesitate, falter

Noun
1. indecision in speech or action
(synonym) hesitation, vacillation
(hypernym) indecision, indecisiveness, irresolution
(derivation) hesitate, waver, waffle
2. the quality of being unsteady and subject to fluctuations; "he kept a record of price fluctuations"
(synonym) fluctuation
(hypernym) irregularity, unregularity
(hyponym) scintillation
(derivation) fluctuate, vacillate, waver
Adjective
1. uncertain in purpose or action
(synonym) vacillant, vacillating
(similar) irresolute

Noun
1. someone who communicates by waving
(hypernym) communicator
(derivation) brandish, flourish, wave
2. the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech"
(synonym) hesitation, falter, faltering
(hypernym) pause
(derivation) hesitate, waffle
3. the act of moving back and forth
(synonym) flutter, flicker
(hypernym) motion, movement, move, motility
(derivation) falter
Verb
1. pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures"
(synonym) hesitate, waffle
(hyponym) dwell on, linger over
(entail) doubt
(derivation) hesitation, falter, faltering
2. be unsure or weak; "Their enthusiasm is faltering"
(synonym) falter
(hypernym) hesitate, waffle
(derivation) waverer, vacillator, hesitator, hesitater
3. move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
(synonym) falter
(hypernym) move
(derivation) flutter, flicker
4. move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; "the line on the monitor vacillated"
(synonym) fluctuate, vacillate
(hypernym) swing
(verb-group) fluctuate
(derivation) flutter, flicker
5. move back and forth very rapidly; "the candle flickered"
(synonym) flicker, flitter, flutter, quiver
(hypernym) move back and forth
(derivation) flutter, flicker
6. sway to and fro
(synonym) weave
(hypernym) swing, sway
(derivation) flutter, flicker
7. give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
(synonym) quaver
(hypernym) voice, sound, vocalize, vocalise

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Waver
  

Synonyms and related words:
adrift, aflicker, afloat, agnostic, alternating, alternation, ambiguous, amorphous, bickering, blinking, broken, capricious, capriciousness, careening, catchy, chancy, changeability, changeable, changeableness, changeful, changing, choppiness, choppy, dancing, dappleness, desultory, deviable, deviating, deviation, deviative, deviatory, dicey, dickey, difference, different, differentiation, disconnected, discontinuous, disorder, disorderly, divaricate, divarication, divergence, divergent, diversification, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, doubting, eccentric, equivocal, equivocation, erose, erratic, faltering, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky, flighty, flitting, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuation, fluctuational, fluttering, fluttery, freakish, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, giddy, guttering, halting, harmonic, harmonic motion, herky-jerky, hesitancy, hesitant, hesitating, heteroclite, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, incalculable, inconsistency, inconsistent, inconstancy, inconstant, indecision, indecisive, indemonstrable, inequality, infirm, insecure, instability, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irregularity, irresolute, irresolution, irresponsible, jagged, jerkiness, jerky, lambent, libration, libratory, lurching, mazy, mercurial, mercuriality, moody, motley, motleyness, mutability, mutable, nonconformism, nonconformist, nonconformity, nonstandard, nonstandardization, nonuniform, nonuniformity, nutation, nutational, oscillating, oscillation, oscillatory, patchy, pendular, pendulating, pendulation, pendulous, periodic, periodicity, playing, pluralism, pluralistic, polysemous, quivering, quivery, ragged, raggedness, rambling, resonance, resonance frequency, resonant, restless, rootless, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, seesawing, shaky, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shuffling, skeptical, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, spluttering, sporadic, spotty, sputtering, sputtery, staggering, stroboscopic, teeter-tottering, teetering, tottering, touch-and-go, unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable, unconformism, unconformity, uncontrolled, unconvinced, undependable, undisciplined, undivinable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unevenness, unfixed, unforeseeable, unmethodical, unmetrical, unorthodox, unorthodoxy, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteadiness, unsteady, unsure, unsystematic, ununiform, unverifiable, vacillating, vacillation, vacillatory, vagrant, variability, variable, variation, variegated, variegation, variety, variform, various, variousness, varying, veering, versatility, vibrancy, vibratile, vibratility, vibrating, vibration, vibratory, vicissitude, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavery, wavy, wayward, weak, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly
  

wavering /'weivəriɳ/
tính từ rung rinh, chập chờn (ngọn lửa); rung rung (giọng nói) (quân sự) nao núng, núng thế (nghĩa bóng) lung lay, do dự, lưỡng lự; dao động
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