Faltering vs Uncertain - What's the difference?
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hesitancy
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 29, author=Barry Unsworth, title=Never Far From Despair, work=New York Times
, passage=But it is the doubt thrown on the prospect of arrival, the falterings of purpose and belief, the renewals of hope that give the novel its drive and energy. }}
Not certain; unsure.
*(John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
*:Man, without the protection of a superior Being,is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.
Not known for certain; questionable.
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Not yet determined; undecided.
Variable and subject to change.
Fitful or unsteady.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Unpredictable or capricious.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:O woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain , coy, and hard to please!
Faltering is a related term of uncertain.
As a verb faltering
is .As a noun faltering
is hesitancy.As an adjective uncertain is
not certain; unsure.faltering
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