Dithering vs Hesitate - What's the difference?
dithering | hesitate |
The act of one who dithers.
* 2002 , Susan Mann, Dream of Nation (page 36)
To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.
To stammer; to falter in speaking.
(transitive, poetic, rare) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.
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As verbs the difference between dithering and hesitate
is that dithering is present participle of lang=en while hesitate is to stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.As a noun dithering
is the act of one who dithers.dithering
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Even though it became clear as early as 1766 that a separate policy for Quebec was required, eight long years of delays and ditherings lay between that recognition and actual legislation in the Quebec Act.
hesitate
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(hesitat)- He hesitated''' whether to accept the offer or not; men often '''hesitate in forming a judgment.
- (Alexander Pope)
- Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.