'Wavering' definitions:
Definition of 'wavering'
From: WordNet
adjective
Uncertain in purpose or action [syn: vacillant, vacillating, wavering]
noun
Indecision in speech or action [syn: hesitation, vacillation, wavering]
noun
The quality of being unsteady and subject to changes; "he kept a record of price fluctuations" [syn: fluctuation, wavering]
Definition of 'Wavering'
From: GCIDE
- Waver \Wa"ver\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wavered; p. pr. & vb. n. Wavering.] [OE. waveren, from AS. w[ae]fre wavering, restless. See Wave, v. i.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter. [1913 Webster]
- With banners and pennons wavering with the wind. --Ld. Berners. [1913 Webster]
- Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers against dignities. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment. [1913 Webster]
- Let us hold fast . . . without wavering. --Heb. x. 23. [1913 Webster]
- In feeble hearts, propense enough before To waver, or fall off and join with idols. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To reel; totter; vacillate. See Fluctuate. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wavering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adrift,
- aflicker,
- afloat,
- agnostic,
- alternating,
- alternation,
- ambiguous,
- amorphous,
- bickering,
- blinking,
- broken,
- capricious,
- capriciousness,
- careening,
- catchy,
- chancy,
- changeability,
- changeable,
- changeableness,
- changeful,
- changing,
- choppiness,
- choppy,
- dancing,
- dappleness,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- deviating,
- deviation,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- dicey,
- dickey,
- difference,
- different,
- differentiation,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- disorder,
- disorderly,
- divaricate,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- divergent,
- diversification,
- diversified,
- diversiform,
- dizzy,
- doubting,
- eccentric,
- equivocal,
- equivocation,
- erose,
- erratic,
- faltering,
- fast and loose,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flashing,
- flickering,
- flickery,
- flicky,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- fluctuant,
- fluctuating,
- fluctuation,
- fluctuational,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- freakish,
- frequency,
- frequency band,
- frequency spectrum,
- giddy,
- guttering,
- halting,
- harmonic,
- harmonic motion,
- herky-jerky,
- hesitancy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- heteroclite,
- immethodical,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- incalculable,
- inconsistency,
- inconsistent,
- inconstancy,
- inconstant,
- indecision,
- indecisive,
- indemonstrable,
- inequality,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- instability,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- irregular,
- irregularity,
- irresolute,
- irresolution,
- irresponsible,
- jagged,
- jerkiness,
- jerky,
- lambent,
- libration,
- libratory,
- lurching,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- mercuriality,
- moody,
- motley,
- motleyness,
- mutability,
- mutable,
- nonconformism,
- nonconformist,
- nonconformity,
- nonstandard,
- nonstandardization,
- nonuniform,
- nonuniformity,
- nutation,
- nutational,
- oscillating,
- oscillation,
- oscillatory,
- patchy,
- pendular,
- pendulating,
- pendulation,
- pendulous,
- periodic,
- periodicity,
- playing,
- pluralism,
- pluralistic,
- polysemous,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- ragged,
- raggedness,
- rambling,
- resonance,
- resonance frequency,
- resonant,
- restless,
- rootless,
- rough,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- scrappy,
- seesawing,
- shaky,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffling,
- skeptical,
- snatchy,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- spineless,
- spluttering,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- sputtering,
- sputtery,
- staggering,
- stroboscopic,
- teeter-tottering,
- teetering,
- tottering,
- touch-and-go,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- unconfirmable,
- unconformism,
- unconformity,
- uncontrolled,
- unconvinced,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- undivinable,
- unequable,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unevenness,
- unfixed,
- unforeseeable,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unorthodox,
- unorthodoxy,
- unpersuaded,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unregular,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unrhythmical,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteadiness,
- unsteady,
- unsure,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- unverifiable,
- vacillating,
- vacillation,
- vacillatory,
- vagrant,
- variability,
- variable,
- variation,
- variegated,
- variegation,
- variety,
- variform,
- various,
- variousness,
- varying,
- veering,
- versatility,
- vibrancy,
- vibratile,
- vibratility,
- vibrating,
- vibration,
- vibratory,
- vicissitude,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- weak,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy,
- wobbling,
- wobbly
Words containing 'Wavering'
- Waver,
- Wavered,
- Waverer,
- Waveringly,
- Waverly,
- New Waverly,
- South Waverly,
- Waverly City,
- Waverly Hall,
- Waverly, AL,
- Waverly, FL,
- Waverly, IA,
- Waverly, IL,
- Waverly, KS,
- Waverly, KY,
- Waverly, MI,
- Waverly, MN,
- Waverly, MO,
- Waverly, NE,
- Waverly, NY,
- Waverly, TN,
- Waverly, VA,
- Waverly, WA,
- new waver,
- New Waverly, TX,
- South Waverly, PA,
- Waverly City, OH,
- Waverly Hall, GA,
- flag-waver