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hesitating

verb , present participle of hesitate

Synonyms and Antonyms of hesitating

to show uncertainty about the right course of action

I didn't hesitate to tell them that what they were doing was wrong and that I wanted no part of it

Synonyms of hesitating

balancing, dithering, faltering, halting, hanging back, scrupling, shilly-shallying, staggering, teetering, vacillating, wavering, wobbling (also wabbling)

Words Related to hesitating

hawing, hemming

dallying, dawdling, delaying, lingering, pausing, procrastinating, waiting

backing down, chickening (out)

considering, debating, deliberating, pondering, weighing

oscillating, swaying

equivocating, hedging, pussyfooting, waffling

Near Antonyms of hesitating

budging, stirring

advancing, continuing

Antonyms of hesitating

diving (in), plunging (in)

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