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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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15 words match “IRRESOLUTE”

IRRESOLUTE a.
t resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to doubt or irresolution. Weak and irresolute is man. Cowper.
FEEBLE-MINDED a.
Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile. "comfort the feeble-minded." 1 Thess. v. 14. -- Fee"ble-mind"ed*ness, n.
FLUCTUATE v.
To move now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady; to be irresolute or undetermined; to vacillate.
HAW v.
t, to go from one thing to another without good reason; to have no settled purpose; to be irresolute or unstable. [Colloq.]
HOVER v.
To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely. Agricola having sent his navy to hover on the coast. Milton. Hovering o'er the paper with her quill. Shak.
INDECISIVE a.
Undetermined; prone to indecision; irresolute; unsettled; wavering; vacillating; hesitating; as, an indecisive state of mind; an indecisive character.
INFIRM a.
Weak of mind or will; irresolute; vacillating. "An infirm judgment." Burke. Infirm of purpose! Shak.
IRRESOLUTION n.
ant of decision in purpose; a fluctuation of mind, as in doubt, or between hope and fear; irresoluteness; indecision; vacillation. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness. Addison.
MISGIVE v. 2 definitions
doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun. So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts What may befall him, to his harm and ours. Shak. Such whose consciences misgave them,…
ON adv.
; not off; as in the phrase, "He is neither on nor off," that is, he is not steady, he is irresolute.
SHILL-I-SHALL-I; SHILLY-SHALLY adv.
In an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner. I am somewhat dainty in making a resolution, because when I make it, I keep it; I don't stand shill-I-shall-I then; if I say 't, I'll do 't. Congreve.
SHILLY-SHALLY v.
To hesitate; to act in an irresolute manner; hence, to occupy one's self with trifles.
UNCERTAIN a.
Irresolute; inconsonant; variable; untrustworthy; as, an uncertain person; an uncertain breeze. O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please! Sir W. Scott.
VACILLANT a.
Vacillating; wavering; fluctuating; irresolute.
VACILLATORY a.
Inclined to vacillate; wavering; irresolute. Hawthorne.