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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
waver \wa"ver\, v. i. imp. p. p. wavered; p. pr. vb. n.
wavering. oe. waveren, from as. waefre wavering,
restless. see wave, v. i.
1913 webster
1. to play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other;
hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.
1913 webster
with banners and pennons wavering with the wind.
--ld. berners.
1913 webster
thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror
to all evil speakers against dignities. --sir w.
scott.
1913 webster
2. to be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be
undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.
1913 webster
let us hold fast . . . without wavering. --heb. x.
23.
1913 webster
in feeble hearts, propense enough before
to waver, or fall off and join with idols. --milton.
1913 webster
syn: to reel; totter; vacillate. see fluctuate.
1913 webster
see also:
wavered wavering wave fluctuate
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wavering
adj : uncertain in purpose or action syn: vacillant, vacillating
n 1: indecision in speech or action syn: hesitation, vacillation
2: the quality of being unsteady and subject to fluctuations;
"he kept a record of price fluctuations" syn: fluctuation
see also:
vacillant vacillating hesitation vacillation fluctuation
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
258 moby thesaurus words for "wavering":
adrift, aflicker, afloat, agnostic, alternating, alternation,
ambiguous, amorphous, bickering, blinking, broken, capricious,
capriciousness, careening, catchy, chancy, changeability,
changeable, changeableness, changeful, changing, choppiness,
choppy, dancing, dappleness, desultory, deviable, deviating,
deviation, deviative, deviatory, dicey, dickey, difference,
different, differentiation, disconnected, discontinuous, disorder,
disorderly, divaricate, divarication, divergence, divergent,
diversification, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, doubting,
eccentric, equivocal, equivocation, erose, erratic, faltering,
fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flashing, flickering, flickery,
flicky, flighty, flitting, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuation,
fluctuational, fluttering, fluttery, freakish, frequency,
frequency band, frequency spectrum, giddy, guttering, halting,
harmonic, harmonic motion, herky-jerky, hesitancy, hesitant,
hesitating, heteroclite, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive,
incalculable, inconsistency, inconsistent, inconstancy, inconstant,
indecision, indecisive, indemonstrable, inequality, infirm,
insecure, instability, intermittent, intermitting, irregular,
irregularity, irresolute, irresolution, irresponsible, jagged,
jerkiness, jerky, lambent, libration, libratory, lurching, mazy,
mercurial, mercuriality, moody, motley, motleyness, mutability,
mutable, nonconformism, nonconformist, nonconformity, nonstandard,
nonstandardization, nonuniform, nonuniformity, nutation,
nutational, oscillating, oscillation, oscillatory, patchy,
pendular, pendulating, pendulation, pendulous, periodic,
periodicity, playing, pluralism, pluralistic, polysemous,
quivering, quivery, ragged, raggedness, rambling, resonance,
resonance frequency, resonant, restless, rootless, rough, roving,
scatterbrained, scrappy, seesawing, shaky, shapeless, shifting,
shifty, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shuffling, skeptical,
snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless,
spluttering, sporadic, spotty, sputtering, sputtery, staggering,
stroboscopic, teeter-tottering, teetering, tottering, touch-and-go,
unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable, unconformism,
unconformity, uncontrolled, unconvinced, undependable,
undisciplined, undivinable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unevenness,
unfixed, unforeseeable, unmethodical, unmetrical, unorthodox,
unorthodoxy, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unregular,
unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable,
unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteadiness, unsteady,
unsure, unsystematic, ununiform, unverifiable, vacillating,
vacillation, vacillatory, vagrant, variability, variable,
variation, variegated, variegation, variety, variform, various,
variousness, varying, veering, versatility, vibrancy, vibratile,
vibratility, vibrating, vibration, vibratory, vicissitude,
vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton,
wavery, wavy, wayward, weak, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling,
wobbly
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