[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

faltering \fal"tering\, a.
   hesitating; trembling. "with faltering speech." --milton. --
   n. falter; halting; hesitation. -- fal"teringly, adv.
   1913 webster
see also:
fal"teringly 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

falter \fal"ter\, v. i. imp.  p. p. faltered; p. pr.  vb.
   n. faltering. oe. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault.
   see fault, v.  n.
   1. to hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as,
      his tongue falters.
      1913 webster

            with faltering speech and visage incomposed.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. to tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. "he found his legs
      falter." --wiseman.
      1913 webster

   3. to hesitate in purpose or action.
      1913 webster

            ere her native king
            shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. to fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said
      of the mind or of thought.
      1913 webster

            here indeed the power of disinct conception of space
            and distance falters.                 --i. taylor.
      1913 webster
see also:
faltered faltering fault 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

faltering
     adj : unsteady in speech or action
     n : the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in
         his speech" syn: hesitation, waver, falter
see also:
hesitation waver falter 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

90 moby thesaurus words for "faltering":
   ambling, balbutient, bashful, boggling, cautious, circumspect,
   claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate,
   demurring, diffident, easy, flagging, foot-dragging, gentle,
   gradual, halting, hesitant, hesitating, hobbled, hobbling, idle,
   indecisive, indolent, irresolute, jibbing, languid, languorous,
   lazy, leisurely, limping, lukewarm, lumbering, moderate, modest,
   poking, poky, qualmish, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, scrupling,
   scrupulous, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shuffling, shy, slack,
   slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow,
   slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving,
   slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped,
   sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, squeamish, staggering,
   stammering, sticking, stickling, straining, strolling, stumbling,
   stuttering, tentative, timid, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering,
   trudging, turtlelike, uncertain, unhurried, vacillatory, waddling,
   wavering, wobbly

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