wavering

verb

  1. 1

    To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

    Flowers wavered in the breeze.
  2. 2

    To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.

  3. 3

    To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.

  4. 4

    To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.

    His voice wavered when the reporter brought up the controversial topic.
  5. 5

    To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.

  6. 6

    To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.

    Despite all the terrible things that happened to her, she never wavered from her beliefs.

noun

  1. 1

    A state of fluctuation or indecision.

    the waverings of politicians, trying to please everybody

adjective

  1. 1

    Fluctuating; being in doubt; undetermined; indecisive; uncertain; unsteady.

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