Hesitating
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

SHY
A quick throw; "he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman"

5 letters

DICEY
Of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker

TIMID
People who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid"

6 letters

CHANCY
Of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker

UNSURE
Lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance; "uncertain of his convictions"; "unsure of himself and his future"; "moving with uncertain (or unsure) steps"; "an uncertain smile"; "touched the ornaments with uncertain fingers"

MODEST
Limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"

FICKLE
Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"

FALTER
The act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech"

7 letters

PAUSING

JIBBING

HALTING
Disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"

ERRATIC
Likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster

CAUTION
The trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger; "a man of caution"

BASHFUL
Disposed to avoid notice; "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)

NOTSURE

8 letters

HESITANT
Lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly

WAVERING
Indecision in speech or action

VARIABLE
A quantity that can assume any of a set of values

STICKING
Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"

DOUBTING
Marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a skeptical listener"

QUALMISH

DOUBTFUL
Fraught with uncertainty or doubt; "they were doubtful that the cord would hold"; "it was doubtful whether she would be admitted"; "dubious about agreeing to go"

CAUTIOUS
People who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid"

BOGGLING

AGNOSTIC
Someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something

9 letters

FALTERING
The act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech"

WHIMSICAL
Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"

VACILLATE
Be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement"

UNCERTAIN
Not established beyond doubt; still undecided or unknown; "an uncertain future"; "a manuscript of uncertain origin"; "plans are still uncertain"; "changes of great if uncertain consequences"; "without further evidence his story must remain uncertain"

TENTATIVE
Under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule"

STUMBLING

STRAINING
An intense or violent exertion

SQUEAMISH
Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

SKEPTICAL
Denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion; "a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles"

SHRINKING
The act of becoming less

SCRUPLING

SCEPTICAL
Denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion; "a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles"

PENDULOUS
Having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"

EQUIVOCAL
Open to question; "aliens of equivocal loyalty"; "his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son"-Anna Jameson

DIFFIDENT
Lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man"

DEMURRING

AMBIGUOUS
Having more than one possible meaning; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"

10 letters

STRICKLING

UNRESOLVED
Not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought; "an open question"; "our position on this bill is still undecided"; "our lawsuit is still undetermined"

UNPROVABLE
Not provable; "it was both unproved and unprovable"

TOUCHANDGO

STUTTERING

STAMMERING

SCRUPULOUS
Characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"

POLYSEMOUS
Of words; having many meanings

IRRESOLUTE
Uncertain how to act or proceed; "the committee was timid and mediocre and irresolute"

INDECISIVE
Not clearly defined; "indecisive boundaries running through mountains"

HESITATION
A certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hesitation he agreed"

HESITATING
Lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly

DIFFIDENCE
Lack of self-confidence

CHANGEABLE
Such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change; "changeable behavior"; "changeable moods"; "changeable prices"

CAPRICIOUS
Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"

BALBUTIENT

11 letters

UNPERSUADED
Not converted

UNDIVINABLE

UNCONVINCED
Lacking conviction; "I remain unconvinced"

DISTRUSTFUL
Having or showing distrust; "a man of distrustful nature"; "my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo; "vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas Jefferson

12 letters

UNVERIFIABLE
(of e.g. evidence) not objective or easily verified

INCALCULABLE
Not capable of being computed or enumerated

INARTICULATE
Without or deprived of the use of speech or words; "inarticulate beasts"; "remained stupidly inarticulate and saying something noncommittal"; "inarticulate with rage"; "an inarticulate cry"

13 letters

UNPREDICTABLE
Unknown in advance; "an unpredictable (or indeterminable) future"

UNFORESEEABLE
Incapable of being anticipated; "unforeseeable consequences"

UNCONFIRMABLE

UNACCOUNTABLE
Not to be accounted for or explained; "perceptible only as unaccountable influences that hinder progress"; "an unexplainable fear"

14 letters

INDEMONSTRABLE

15 letters

SHILLYSHALLYING