hesitate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- falter derivation
- hesitation derivation
- vacillation derivation
- waverer derivation
- waffler derivation
- hesitant derivation
- doubt entails
Sense 2 verb
interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
The speaker paused
Types & categories
- delay hypernym
- hem and haw hyponym
- scruple hyponym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | falter |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hesitation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | vacillation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | waverer |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | waffler |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hesitant |
| 1 | entails | Related & opposite | doubt |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dwell on |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | boggle |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | hover |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | vacillate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | falter |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pause |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | falter |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | waverer |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pause |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | delay |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | hem and haw |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | scruple |