'Faltering' definitions:
Definition of 'faltering'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Unsteady in speech or action
noun
The act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech" [syn: hesitation, waver, falter, faltering]
Definition of 'Faltering'
From: GCIDE
- Faltering \Fal"ter*ing\, a. Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." --Milton. -- n. Falter; halting; hesitation. -- {Fal"ter*ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Faltering'
From: GCIDE
- Falter \Fal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Faltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Faltering.] [OE. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault. See Fault, v. & n.]
- 1. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. [1913 Webster]
- With faltering speech and visage incomposed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. "He found his legs falter." --Wiseman. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To hesitate in purpose or action. [1913 Webster]
- Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought. [1913 Webster]
- Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'faltering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ambling,
- balbutient,
- bashful,
- boggling,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- deliberate,
- demurring,
- diffident,
- easy,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gentle,
- gradual,
- halting,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- indecisive,
- indolent,
- irresolute,
- jibbing,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- lukewarm,
- lumbering,
- moderate,
- modest,
- poking,
- poky,
- qualmish,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- sauntering,
- scrupling,
- scrupulous,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrinking,
- shuffling,
- shy,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- squeamish,
- staggering,
- stammering,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- strolling,
- stumbling,
- stuttering,
- tentative,
- timid,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- uncertain,
- unhurried,
- vacillatory,
- waddling,
- wavering,
- wobbly