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🎵 Near Rhymes for "Hesitant"
50 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
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| benevolent | 4 | Having a disposition to do good. | |
| reticent | 3 | Unwilling to communicate; keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained. | |
| delicate | 3 | noun | Easily damaged or requiring careful handling. |
| malevolent | 4 | Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others. | |
| arrogant | 3 | Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others. | |
| exigent | 3 | noun | Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action. |
| elegant | 3 | noun | Characterised by or exhibiting elegance. |
| penitent | 3 | noun | Feeling pain or sorrow on account of one's sins or offenses; feeling sincere guilt. |
| evident | 3 | Obviously true by simple observation. | |
| sentiment | 3 | noun | A general thought, feeling, or sense. |
| resonance | 3 | noun | (uncountable) The quality of being resonant. |
| intelligent | 4 | noun | Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright. |
| element | 3 | noun | (chemistry) Any one of the types of atom distinguished by having a certain number of protons in its nucleus. |
| prevalent | 3 | noun | Widespread or preferred. |
| decadent | 3 | noun | Luxuriously self-indulgent. |
| relevant | 3 | Related, connected, or pertinent to a topic. | |
| impediment | 4 | noun | A hindrance; that which impedes or obstructs progress; impedance. |
| predicate | 3 | noun | (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by. |
| irrelevant | 4 | Not relevant, as: | |
| excellent | 3 | Of higher or the highest quality; splendid. | |
| militant | 3 | noun | Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike. |
| etiquette | 3 | noun | The manners or decent behaviour to be observed in social or professional life; conventional decorum; the ceremonial code of polite society. |
| evidence | 3 | noun | Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion. |
| celibate | 3 | noun | (chiefly religious) Not married. |
| benefit | 3 | noun | An advantage; help or aid from something. |
| embellishment | 4 | noun | An added touch; an ornamental addition; a flourish. |
| regiment | 3 | noun | (military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units. |
| residence | 3 | noun | The place where one lives (resides); one's home. |
| negligent | 3 | Careless or inattentive. | |
| relevance | 3 | noun | The property or state of being relevant or pertinent. |
| definite | 3 | noun | Free from any doubt. |
| effeminate | 4 | noun | (often derogatory) Of a boy or man, exhibiting behavior or mannerisms considered typical of a woman or unmasculine. |
| skeleton | 3 | noun | (anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals. |
| settlement | 3 | noun | A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place. |
| precedent | 3 | noun | An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future. |
| elegance | 3 | noun | Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners. |
| testament | 3 | noun | One of the two parts to the scriptures of the Christian religion: the New Testament, considered by Christians to be a continuation of the Hebrew scriptures, and the Hebrew scriptures themselves, which they refer to as the Old Testament. |
| embezzlement | 4 | noun | (law, business) The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner. |
| fetishist | 3 | noun | One who has a sexual fetish. |
| inheritance | 4 | noun | The passing of title to an estate upon death. |
| resident | 3 | noun | A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area. |
| indelicate | 4 | Improper or immodest. | |
| sediment | 3 | noun | A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water. |
| elements | 3 | noun | The basic tenets of an area of knowledge, basics, fundamentals. |
| president | 3 | noun | The head of state of a republic. |
| exsiccate | 3 | verb | (transitive) To dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate. |
| medicine | 3 | noun | (uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug. |
| sedative | 3 | noun | (pharmacology) An agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep. |
| evidenced | 3 | supported by evidence | |
| heritance | 3 | noun | (archaic) Inheritance; the act of inheriting or something inherited. |
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Poetry
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