Word Meanings - HESITATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Showing, or characterized by, hesitation. in his mild, hesitative way. R. D. Blackmore.

Related words: (words related to HESITATIVE)

• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• SHOWROOM
  A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. 2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
• SHOWILY
  In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
• SHOWING
  1. Appearance; display; exhibition. 2. Presentation of facts; statement. J. S. Mill.
• SHOWER
  1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
• SHOWMAN
  One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
• SHOWERY
  1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. 2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton.
• SHOW
  view; akin to OS. scaw, OFries. skawia, D. schouwen, OHG. scouw, G. schauen, Dan. skue, Sw. sk, Icel. sko, Goth. usskawjan to waken, skuggwa a mirror, Icel. skuggy shade, shadow, L. cavere to be on 1. To exhibit or present to view; to place in
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• SHOWBREAD
  Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in
• SHOWN
  p. p. of Show.
• SHOWISH
  Showy; ostentatious. Swift.
• SHOWERLESS
  Rainless; freo from showers.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• SHOWERINESS
  Quality of being showery.
• SHOWINESS
  The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.
• HESITATIVE
  Showing, or characterized by, hesitation. in his mild, hesitative way. R. D. Blackmore.
• SHOWERFUL
  Full of showers. Tennyson.
• SHOWY
  , a. Etym:
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• RAREE-SHOW
  A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• THUNDERSHOWER
  A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• PRESHOW
  To foreshow.
• FORESHOW
  To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.