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Adjective wavering has 1 sense
- vacillant, vacillating, wavering - uncertain in purpose or action
Antonym: resolute (indirect, via irresolute)
Noun wavering has 2 senses
- hesitation, vacillation, wavering - indecision in speech or action
--1 is a kind of indecision, indecisiveness, irresolution
- fluctuation, wavering - the quality of being unsteady and subject to fluctuations; "he kept a record of price fluctuations"
--2 is a kind of irregularity, unregularity
--2 has particulars: scintillation
Verb waver has 7 senses
- hesitate, waver, waffle - pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE
- falter, waver - be unsure or weak; "Their enthusiasm is faltering"
--2 is one way to hesitate, waver, waffle
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- falter, waver - move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
--3 is one way to move
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Somebody ----s
- fluctuate, vacillate, waver - move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; "the line on the monitor vacillated"
--4 is one way to swing
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Somebody ----s
- flicker, waver, flitter, flutter, quiver - move back and forth very rapidly; "the candle flickered"
--5 is one way to move back and forth
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
- waver, weave - sway to and fro
--6 is one way to swing, sway
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Somebody ----s
- quaver, waver - give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
--7 is one way to voice, sound, vocalize, vocalise
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