hesitant

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

Hesitant \Hes"i*tant\, a. [L. haesitans, p. pr. of haesitare:
   cf. F. h['e]sitant. See {Hesitate}.]
   1. Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.
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   2. Unready in speech. --Baxter.
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101 Moby Thesaurus words for "hesitant":
      afraid, agnostic, ambiguous, ambivalent, averse, backward, bashful,
      boggling, canny, capricious, careful, cautious, chancy, changeable,
      circumspect, deliberate, demurring, dicey, diffident, discreet,
      dithering, doubting, equivocal, erratic, faltering, fickle,
      fluctuating, gingerly, guarded, halting, heedful, hesitating,
      incalculable, indecisive, indefinite, indemonstrable, indisposed,
      irresolute, jibbing, judicious, leaving out nothing, loath,
      mindful, modest, noncommittal, of two minds, on guard,
      overlooking no possibility, pause, pawky, politic, polysemous,
      prudent, qualmish, regardful, reluctant, safe, scrupling,
      scrupulous, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shy, skeptical,
      slow to act, squeamish, stammering, sticking, stickling, straining,
      stuttering, tentative, thorough, timid, touch-and-go,
      unaccountable, unadventurous, uncertain, uncommunicative,
      unconfirmable, unconvinced, undaring, undecided, undivinable,
      uneager, unenterprising, unforeseeable, unpersuaded, unprecipitate,
      unpredictable, unprovable, unresolved, unsettled, unsure,
      unverifiable, unwilling, vacillating, vacillatory, variable,
      wavering, whimsical, wobbly