hesitating

hesitating
    adj 1: lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or
           decide quickly or firmly [syn: {hesitant}, {hesitating}]
    

Hesitate \Hes"i*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Hesitated}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Hesitating}.] [L. haesitatus, p. p. of haesitare,
   intens. fr. haerere to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold
   fast. Cf. {Aghast}, {Gaze}, {Adhere}.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in
      suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he
      hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often
      hesitate in forming a judgment. --Pope.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To stammer; to falter in speaking.

   Syn: To doubt; waver; scruple; deliberate; demur; falter;
        stammer.
        [1913 Webster]
    

hesitating \hesitating\ adj.
   holding back because of doubt or lack of confidence.

   Syn: hesitant, indecisive.
        [WordNet 1.5]
    

57 Moby Thesaurus words for "hesitating":
      agnostic, ambiguous, balbutient, bashful, boggling, capricious,
      cautious, chancy, changeable, demurring, dicey, diffident,
      doubting, equivocal, erratic, faltering, fickle, halting, hesitant,
      incalculable, indecisive, indemonstrable, irresolute, jibbing,
      modest, polysemous, qualmish, scrupling, scrupulous,
      shilly-shallying, shrinking, shy, skeptical, squeamish, stammering,
      sticking, stickling, straining, stumbling, stuttering, tentative,
      timid, touch-and-go, unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable,
      unconvinced, undivinable, unforeseeable, unpersuaded,
      unpredictable, unprovable, unsure, unverifiable, variable,
      wavering, whimsical