hesitations

NOUN

waiting; uncertainty

Synonyms

STRONGEST

doubt equivocation hesitancy indecision misgiving mistrust pause procrastination qualm reluctance skepticism unwillingness vacillation

STRONG

dawdling delay demurral dubiety faltering fluctuation indecisiveness indisposition irresolution oscillation scruple wavering

WEAK

averseness delaying fumbling hemming and hawing stammering stumbling stuttering

Antonyms

STRONGEST

belief certainty confidence faith trust

WEAK

eagerness go perseverance sureness

Example Sentences

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Mary Altaffer No Hesitations The travel-and-food guru Anthony Bourdain was filming his show in Lebanon when the Hizbullah war broke out in 2006.

From Newsweek • May 20, 2010

The Queen, he says, seeing a Stranger, made some little Hesitations: But at last, My Dear, says she, we have nothing but a Rib of cold Beef at present, for yesterday, you know, was Washing-Day.

From The Theater (1720) by Falstaffe, John, Sir

Hesitations of usage as symptomatic of the direction of drift.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward

The Hesitations of recent Historians of the Revolution.

From The Psychology of Revolution by Le Bon, Gustave

Hesitations were at an end;—he took his line.

From Love and Mr. Lewisham by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)