Usually means: Pausing before action or decision.
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  1. hesitating: Merriam-Webster
  2. hesitating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hesitating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hesitating, hesitating: Wordnik
  5. hesitating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hesitating: Wiktionary
  7. Hesitating, hesitating: Dictionary.com
  8. hesitating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Hesitating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. hesitating: Rhymezone
  11. Hesitating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. hesitating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. hesitating: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hesitating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. hesitating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hesitating: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hesitating)

▸ noun:  hesitation

Similar:
hesitant, irresolute, indecisive, hesitance, halting, hesitancy, hæsitation, hæsitancy, hesitator, hemming, more...

Opposite:
confident, bold, courageous, daring, fearless, intrepid, valiant

Phrases:
not hesitating, without hesitating, hesitating person, hesitating at first, more...

Adjectives:
more, first, long, little, few, half, step, promptest, somewhat, pretty, timid

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Similar:
hesitant, irresolute, indecisive, hesitance, halting, hesitancy, hæsitation, hæsitancy, hesitator, hemming, more...

Opposite:
confident, bold, courageous, daring, fearless, intrepid, valiant

Phrases:
not hesitating, without hesitating, hesitating person, hesitating at first, more...

Adjectives:
more, first, long, little, few, half, step, promptest, somewhat, pretty, timid

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



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