Usually means: Losing strength or momentum gradually.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word faltering:

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  1. faltering: Merriam-Webster
  2. faltering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. faltering: Vocabulary.com
  4. Faltering, faltering: Wordnik
  5. faltering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. faltering: Wiktionary
  7. Faltering, faltering: Dictionary.com
  8. faltering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Faltering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. faltering: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. faltering: Rhymezone
  12. Faltering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. faltering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. faltering: FreeDictionary.org
  15. faltering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. faltering: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. faltering: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. faltering: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. faltering: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  hesitant, halting
▸ noun:  hesitancy

Similar:
hesitation, unsteady, waver, halting, stuttering, hesitative, hesitant, mammering, hesitational, stuttery, more...

Opposite:
steady, strong, firm, resolute

Types:
stumbling, stuttering, stammering, hesitating, pausing, halting, floundering, slipping, more...

Phrases:
not faltering, without faltering, smile faltering, quickly faltering, faltering light, more...

Adjectives:
momentary, slightest, first, least, own, sudden, such, perceptible, certain, apparent, early

Colors:
    muted brown,     faded blue,     washed-out yellow,     dull green,     wan pink, more...



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Similar:
hesitation, unsteady, waver, halting, stuttering, hesitative, hesitant, mammering, hesitational, stuttery, more...

Opposite:
steady, strong, firm, resolute

Types:
stumbling, stuttering, stammering, hesitating, pausing, halting, floundering, slipping, more...

Phrases:
not faltering, without faltering, smile faltering, quickly faltering, faltering light, faltering falling, more...

Adjectives:
momentary, slightest, first, least, own, sudden, such, perceptible, certain, apparent, early

Colors:
    muted brown,     faded blue,     washed-out yellow,     dull green,     wan pink, more...



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