vacillating
not resolute; wavering; indecisive; hesitating: an ineffectual, vacillating person.
oscillating; swaying; fluctuating: a vacillating indicator.
Origin of vacillating
1- Also vacillant .
synonym study For vacillating
Other words for vacillating
Other words from vacillating
- vac·il·lat·ing·ly, adverb
- non·vac·il·lat·ing, adjective
- un·vac·il·lat·ing, adjective
Words Nearby vacillating
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How to use vacillating in a sentence
vacillating between silly and serious, the talk with Ansari is interrupted several times with giggling—most of it his own.
Parks and Recreation’s Aziz Ansari Is 30 Years Old and Writing a Book About Modern Love | Abby Haglage | November 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTvacillating and unintelligent, his actions were all guided by his mistress, Mme Bonnemain.
Yet the feeling is in most children weak and vacillating, and is wont to be mixed with other and less noble ones.
Children's Ways | James SullyTo go back on it, and at the eleventh hour, would proclaim him weak and vacillating, and the effect might be as Strachan said.
The Courier of the Ozarks | Byron A. DunnThey could get no satisfactory answer from Aranjuez, where the vacillating, terrified, and disunited court now was.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan Sloane
It is small wonder that the measures of such a congress, when not vacillating, were weak.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals | T. C. DeLeonFor a moment Mrs. Horncastle was speechless and vacillating.
The Three Partners | Bret Harte
British Dictionary definitions for vacillating
rarely vacillant (ˈvæsɪlənt)
/ (ˈvæsɪˌleɪtɪŋ) /
inclined to waver; indecisive
Derived forms of vacillating
- vacillatingly, adverb
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