vacillating
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vacillate \Vac"il*late\ (v[a^]s"[i^]l*l[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. {Vacillated} (v[a^]s"[i^]l*l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Vacillating}.] [L. vacillare, vacillatum; cf. Skr. va[~n]c.]
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1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to
waver.
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[A spheroid] is always liable to shift and
vacillatefrom one axis to another. --Paley.
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2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or
inconstant; to waver.
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Syn: See {Fluctuate}.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
98 Moby Thesaurus words for "vacillating":
adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, capricious, changeable,
changeful, coquettish, desultory, deviable, dizzy, eccentric,
erratic, faddish, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering,
flighty, flirtatious, flitting, fluctuant, fluctuating,
fluctuational, freakish, giddy, harmonic, impetuous, impulsive,
inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, irregular,
irresolute, irresponsible, libratory, light, mazy, mercurial,
moody, nutational, oscillating, oscillatory, pendular, pendulating,
pendulous, periodic, quicksilver, rambling, resonant, restless,
roving, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shilly-shally,
shilly-shallying, shuffling, skittish, spasmodic, spineless,
toying, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable,
undisciplined, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained,
unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast,
unsteady, vacillatory, vagrant, variable, versatile, vibratile,
vibrating, vibratory, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile,
wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical,
wishy-washy, wobbly
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