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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin haesitans, present participle of haesitare (“to stick fast, to hesitate”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
hesitant (comparative more hesitant, superlative most hesitant)
- Tending to hesitate, wait, or proceed with caution or reservation.
I am hesitant to recommend him as a manager because he has a short temper.
Translations
tending to hesitate
- Bulgarian: колеблив (bg) (kolebliv), нерешителен (bg) (nerešitelen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (please verify) 猶豫不決 / 犹豫不决 (zh) (yóuyùbùjué), (please verify) 下不了決心 / 下不了决心 (xiàbuliǎo juéxīn)
- Czech: váhavý
- Dutch: schoorvoetend (nl), aarzelend (nl), weifelend (nl)
- Finnish: epäröivä (fi)
- French: hésitant (fr)
- German: zögerlich (de)
- Greek: διστακτικός (el) m (distaktikós)
- Hebrew: הססן (he) m (Hasesan)
- Icelandic: hikandi m, efablandinn m, tvístígandi m, óákveðinn (is) m, óráðinn m, á báðum áttum
- Italian: esitante (it), titubante (it)
- Latin: cunctans, haesitans
- Maori: pōkaku, hokirua, kokekoke, maunawenawe, tikumu
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: nølende
- Portuguese: hesitante (pt)
- Russian: неуверен (neuveren)
- Spanish: vacilante (es), inseguro (es), titubeante, dubitativo (es), indeciso (es), irresoluto (es)
- Swedish: tveksam (sv), tvehågsen (sv), villrådig (sv), ambivalent (sv), kluven (sv), velig (sv), obeslutsam (sv), vankelmodig (sv)
- Tagalog: nag-aalinlangan
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Verb
hesitant
- gerund of hesitar