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Synonyms for hesitant
ˈhɛz ɪ tənthes·i·tant
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Princeton's WordNet
hesitant, hesitatingadjective
lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly
Synonyms:
hesitatingAntonyms:
decisive
Editors Contribution
cautious
i would be cautious about walking there after dark.
gun-shy
proceed with caution.
he was hesitant to travel at night due to a previous bad experience.
Submitted by JP03 on March 9, 2015
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "hesitant":
reluctant, irresolute, undecided, timid, tentative, reticent, doubtful, half-hearted, wait-and-see, dilatory
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#14720 | reluctant | |
#15140 | tentative | |
#20066 | doubtful | |
#25269 | undecided | |
#32220 | hesitant | |
#33672 | timid | |
#75781 | hesitating | |
#81424 | reticent | |
#162791 | dilatory | |
#185651 | irresolute |
How to use hesitant in a sentence?
I didn’t move here to try to recreate California, I moved her because I really like Texas so therefore, I’m very hesitant to speak ill of anybody who was here before I was, however f*** fire ants, i hope they get stung in their eye by other fire ants and I hope they have to deal with the itching and the pain and the little pusy boils that come afterwards.
The relief rally that started in February seems to be over now. We are in a difficult situation as we need growth and higher profits, but an improvement in the economy raises the risk of a U.S. rate hike sooner rather than later, we had a huge rally in commodities stocks also, but investors are hesitant to chase the sector as concerns about the pace of economic growth in China persist.
Normally, we would taste our products and play around with them. But we were hesitant to immediately try and taste because we’re talking about a protein that hasn’t existed for 5,000 years. I’ve got no idea what the potential allergenicity might be of this particular protein, that’s one of the reasons why we’re not offering this as a product. It’s not going to go up for sale, because we’ve got no idea about the safety profile of this particular product.
We got them in foul trouble early, which made them hesitant on the offensive end with their attack, i think going forward that’s a huge thing in what we need to do because we realize how important it was to do that today.
The U.S. was our main growth market until this year but due to the trade war, clients have become hesitant to put in an order, and many orders from the U.S. have been canceled.
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