Word Meanings - VACILLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. Paley. 2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver. Syn. -- See Fluctuate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VACILLATE)

• Doubt Dubitate
• hesitate
• vacillate
• waver
• demur
• faulter
• Halt
• hobble
• slip
• dubitate
• stammer
• flinch
• Fluctuate
• Waver
• oscillate
• vary
• veer
• Hesitate
• halt
• fluctuate
• alternate
• scruple
• be undetermined
• totter

Related words: (words related to VACILLATE)

• DEMURE
  good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
• WAVERER
  One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.
• SCRUPLE
  twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will
• STAMMERING
  Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. -- Stam"mer*ing*ly, adv.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• FLINCHER
  One who flinches or fails.
• TOTTER
  1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
• UNDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke.
• DEMURRABLE
  That may be demurred to. Stormonth.
• FLUCTUATE
  fluctus wave, fr. fluere, fluctum, to flow. See Fluent, and cf. 1. To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air. Blackmore. 2. To move now in one direction and
• ALTERNATENESS
  The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
• DEMURENESS
  The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.
• HOBBLEBUSH
  A low bush having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.
• DOUBT
  duten, douten, OF. duter, doter, douter, F. douter, fr. L. dubitare; 1. To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or
• WAVERINGLY
  In a wavering manner.
• UNDETERMINATION
  Indetermination. Sir M. Hale.
• FLINCH
  To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet. (more info) 1. To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink;
• WAVERINGNESS
  The quality or state of wavering.
• DEMUR
  To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2. (more info) fr. L. demorari; de- + morari to delay, tarry, stay, mora delay; prob. originally, time for thinking, reflection, and akin to memor 1. To linger; to stay; to tarry. Yet durst not demur nor abide
• DEMURELY
  In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
• SUBALTERNATE
  1. Succeeding by turns; successive. 2. Subordinate; subaltern; inferior. All their subalternate and several kinds. Evelyn.
• TITTER-TOTTER
  See TEETER
• REDOUBT
  reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back; cf. F. réduit, also fr. LL. A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected
• MISDOUBT
  To be suspicious of; to have suspicion. I do not misdoubt my wife. Shak.