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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To sway from one side to the other; oscillate.
  2. v. To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another. See Synonyms at hesitate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To waver; move one way and the other; reel; stagger.
  2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; waver; be irresolute or inconstant.
  3. Synonyms and Waver, Oscillate, etc. (see fluctuate), sway.
  4. To hesitate.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate.
  2. v. intransitive To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
  2. v. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
  2. v. move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern

Etymologies

  1. From Latin vacillātum, supine form of vacillō ("sway, waver"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin vacillāre, vacillāt-, to waver. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • blafferty This word feels weak-chinned and sounds like the motion of your hand when you're saying "kinda, maybe, I don't know." May 25, 2009

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