vacillating
Use Vacillating in a sentence
əˌleɪ adjective
1.
not resolute; wavering; indecisive; hesitating: an ineffectual, vacillating person.
2.
oscillating; swaying; fluctuating: a vacillating indicator.
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verb (used without object), vac·il·lat·ed, vac·il·lat·ing.
1.
to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
2.
to sway unsteadily; waver; totter; stagger.
3.
to oscillate or fluctuate.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to fluctuate in one's opinions; be indecisive |
| 2. | to sway from side to side physically; totter or waver |
| [C16: from Latin vacillāre to sway, of obscure origin] | |
| vacil'lation | |
| —n | |
| 'vacillator | |
| —n | |
| vacillating or vacillant (ˈvæsɪˌleɪtɪŋ, ˈvæsɪlənt) | |
| —adj | |
| inclined to waver; indecisive | |
| vacillant or vacillant | |
| —adj | |
| 'vacillatingly or vacillant | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
vacillate
1590s, "to sway unsteadily," from L. vacillatum, from vacillare (see vacillation). Meaning "to waver between two opinions or courses" is recorded from 1620s. Related: Vacillated; vacillates; vacillating.
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Example sentences
She has a keen way of vacillating between serious and silly that seamlessly drives home what really matters in life.
He used grids, built color in layers or by juxtaposition, and created vacillating surfaces out of thousands of individual marks.
Now it is the recipients who are vacillating about accepting it.
Lookouts are places vacillating between an experience far from the world and the thunderous reality of a mountain storm.
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