halting

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English

Adjective

halting (comparative more halting, superlative most halting)

Prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.
his halting speech

her halting steps
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World , London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak a halting English.

Derived terms

Translations

hesitant or broken

Bulgarian: колеблив (bg) (kolebliv), заекващ (bg) (zaekvašt)
Dutch: stoppen (nl), onderbreken (nl), stil houden
Maori: pāremoremo (of speech)
Spanish: titubeante, vacilante (es), entrecortado (es)

Verb

halting

present participle and gerund of halt

Noun

halting (plural haltings)

The action of one who halts; a stopping or hesitancy.
- 1841, George Mogridge, Thoughts for the thoughtful, by old Humphrey, page 167:
  But alas ! alas ! the faintings, the haltings, the back-slidings of Christians, are enough to make us tremble while we rejoice in the hope set before us.

Synonyms

(stopping, hesitancy): hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause

Anagrams

Althing, alnight, lathing, thingal

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