vacillate
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Verb
vacillated, past participle; vacillates, 3rd person singular present; vacillating, present participle; vacillated, past tense;
/ˈvasəˌlāt/,
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vacillated, past participle; vacillates, 3rd person singular present; vacillating, present participle; vacillated, past tense;
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Alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive
- - I had for a time vacillated between teaching and journalism
Web Definitions:
- hover: be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement"
- fluctuate: move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; "the line on the monitor vacillated"
- (vacillating) vacillant: uncertain in purpose or action
- (vacillation) hesitation: indecision in speech or action
- To sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate; To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another
- (Vacillation) The prominent feature of weakness of character.
- (v.) to fluctuate, hesitate (I prefer a definite answer, but my boss kept vacillating between the distinct options available to us.)
- to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute
- be unable to decide, swing back and forth * Love Triangle
- (v) - to waver; to be undecided