Usually means: With uncertainty, doubt, or reluctance.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. hesitantly: Merriam-Webster
  2. hesitantly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hesitantly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hesitantly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Hesitantly, hesitantly: Wordnik
  6. hesitantly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hesitantly: Wiktionary
  8. Hesitantly, hesitantly: Dictionary.com
  9. Hesitantly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. hesitantly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. hesitantly: Rhymezone
  12. Hesitantly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. hesitantly: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hesitantly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. hesitantly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hesitantly)

▸ adverb:  With hesitation.
▸ adverb:  With reluctance.

Similar:
hesitatingly, venturingly, hesitatively, reluctantly, timidly, unsteadily, falteringly, unhesitantly, doubtingly, irresolvedly, more...

Opposite:
confidently, boldly, assuredly

Types:
tentatively, cautiously, apprehensively, warily, more...

Phrases:
say hesitantly, walk hesitantly, speak hesitantly, hesitantly accepting something, not hesitantly, more...

Colors:
    muted beige,     soft lavender,     dusty rose,     light taupe,     faded blue, more...

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Similar:
hesitatingly, venturingly, hesitatively, reluctantly, timidly, unsteadily, falteringly, unhesitantly, doubtingly, irresolvedly, more...

Opposite:
confidently, boldly, assuredly

Types:
tentatively, cautiously, apprehensively, warily, more...

Phrases:
say hesitantly, walk hesitantly, speak hesitantly, hesitantly accepting something, not hesitantly, responded hesitantly, said hesitantly, to move hesitantly, walked hesitantly, examined hesitantly, more...

Colors:
    muted beige,     soft lavender,     dusty rose,     light taupe,     faded blue, more...



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