Past Tenses
website for synonyms, antonyms, verb conjugations and translations

hesitate synonyms

Trying to find another word for hesitate in English? No problem. Our thesaurus contains synonyms of hesitate in 49 different contexts. We have listed all the similar and related words for hesitate alphabetically.

  • backup
  • double
  • equivalent
  • fill-in
  • proxy
  • replacement
  • stand-in
  • sub
  • surrogate
  • antithesis
  • correspondence
  • counterbalance
  • equity
  • equivalence
  • even-steven
  • evenness
  • hang
  • harmony
  • cramp
  • crimp
  • demur
  • desist
  • dodge
  • evade
  • flinch
  • hesitate
  • recoil
  • alternate
  • balance
  • balk
  • be reluctant
  • be unwilling
  • blow hot and cold
  • dally
  • debate
  • defer
  • be on the fence
  • change one's mind
  • chop and change
  • flip-flop
  • fluctuate
  • vacillate
  • will and will not
  • wobble about
  • boondoggle
  • drag
  • fool around
  • fool with
  • fritter away
  • hang about
  • horse around
  • idle
  • jerk off
  • agitation
  • altercation
  • argument
  • argumentation
  • blah-blah
  • cogitation
  • contention
  • contest
  • controversy
  • adjourn
  • block
  • delay
  • detain
  • extend
  • give rain check
  • hang fire
  • hinder
  • hold up
  • adjournment
  • bind
  • check
  • cooling-off period
  • cunctation
  • dawdling
  • demurral
  • detention
  • discontinuation
  • balk
  • cavil
  • challenge
  • combat
  • complain
  • deprecate
  • disapprove
  • dispute
  • doubt
  • dally
  • delay
  • fritter
  • idle
  • lag
  • linger
  • loaf
  • loiter
  • stall
  • agitation
  • babble
  • confusion
  • flap
  • fluster
  • panic
  • tizzy
  • agnosticism
  • ambiguity
  • apprehension
  • confusion
  • demurral
  • difficulty
  • diffidence
  • dilemma
  • disbelief
  • beat around the bush
  • beg the question
  • blow hot and cold
  • cavil
  • cloud the issue
  • con
  • cop a plea
  • cop out
  • cover up
  • be undecided
  • bobble
  • break
  • drop the ball
  • flounder
  • fluctuate
  • fluff
  • halt
  • hem and haw
  • blunder
  • bobble
  • cast about
  • come apart at the seams
  • drop the ball
  • fall down
  • flop
  • flummox
  • foul up
  • alter
  • alternate
  • be undecided
  • blow hot and cold
  • ebb and flow
  • flutter
  • go up and down
  • hem and haw
  • hesitate
  • bollix
  • botch
  • bungle
  • err
  • feel
  • flounder
  • flub
  • fluff
  • goof
  • adhere
  • attach
  • be fastened
  • be in mid-air
  • be loose
  • be pendent
  • be poised
  • beetle
  • bend
  • drop back
  • drop behind
  • hang fire
  • hang off
  • hold back
  • hold off
  • hover
  • lag behind
  • pause
  • barrier
  • bush
  • enclosure
  • fence
  • guard
  • hedgerow
  • hurdle
  • protection
  • quickset
  • back and fill
  • beat around the bush
  • beg the question
  • dance around
  • equivocate
  • euphemize
  • fudge and mudge
  • hum and haw
  • mince words
  • bit
  • bridle
  • check
  • control
  • curb
  • defer
  • delay
  • deny
  • forbear
  • be suspended
  • brood over
  • dance
  • drift
  • flicker
  • flit
  • flitter
  • flutter
  • fly
  • amble
  • be dilatory
  • be long
  • be tardy
  • crawl
  • dally
  • dawdle
  • dillydally
  • drift
  • be unsteady
  • dangle
  • fishtail
  • flicker
  • fluctuate
  • librate
  • lurch
  • palpitate
  • pendulate
  • abeyance
  • break
  • break-off
  • breathing space
  • breathing spell
  • caesura
  • cessation
  • coffee break
  • comma
  • appraise
  • brood
  • build castles in air
  • cerebrate
  • cogitate
  • consider
  • contemplate
  • daydream
  • debate
  • abandon
  • accede
  • acquiesce
  • admit
  • back off
  • back out
  • back pedal
  • backtrack
  • balk
  • avoid
  • be noncommittal
  • beat around the bush
  • creep
  • dodge
  • duck the issues
  • equivocate
  • evade
  • glide
  • anxiety
  • caution
  • censor
  • compunction
  • conscience
  • demur
  • difficulty
  • faltering
  • hesitancy
  • alternate
  • fluctuate
  • rock
  • sway
  • teeter
  • teeter-totter
  • vacillate
  • waver
  • about-face
  • alteration
  • bend
  • change
  • changeover
  • conversion
  • deflection
  • deviation
  • displacement
  • compress
  • concentrate
  • condense
  • constrict
  • contract
  • decrease
  • deflate
  • diminish
  • drop off
  • alternate
  • balance
  • balk
  • be irresolute
  • be reluctant
  • be unwilling
  • blow hot and cold
  • dally
  • debate
  • alternate
  • balance
  • balk
  • be irresolute
  • be reluctant
  • be unwilling
  • blow hot and cold
  • dally
  • debate
  • falter
  • halt
  • hammer
  • hem and haw
  • hesitate
  • jabber
  • lurch
  • pause
  • repeat
  • bar
  • barricade
  • blank wall
  • block
  • blockade
  • break
  • break off
  • brick wall
  • cease
  • bestride
  • hedge
  • mount
  • noncommittal
  • sprawl
  • stride
  • blunder
  • bumble
  • careen
  • err
  • fall
  • fall down
  • falter
  • flounder
  • hesitate
  • dribble
  • falter
  • hesitate
  • splutter
  • sputter
  • stammer
  • stumble
  • bend
  • deflect
  • depart
  • depart from
  • deviate
  • dip
  • diverge
  • err
  • get off course
  • apostatize
  • defect
  • equivocate
  • hedge
  • renounce
  • shift
  • shuffle
  • be in brown study
  • bleed
  • chafe inwardly
  • consider
  • daydream
  • deliberate
  • despond
  • dream
  • dwell upon
  • alternate
  • balance
  • balk
  • be irresolute
  • be reluctant
  • be unwilling
  • blow hot and cold
  • dally
  • debate
  • alternate
  • be indecisive
  • be irresolute
  • change
  • change mind
  • dither
  • fence-straddle
  • fluctuate
  • hedge
  • change
  • change one's mind
  • equivocate
  • flip-flop
  • vacillate
  • yo-yo
  • be irresolute
  • be unable to decide
  • blow hot and cold
  • change
  • deliberate
  • dilly-dally
  • dither
  • falter
  • flicker
  • counterbalance
  • have a weight of
  • heft
  • measure
  • put in the balance
  • put on the scale
  • scale
  • tip the scales at
Also check synonyms for:

PastTenses is a database of English verbs. One can check verbs forms in different tenses. Use our search box to check present tense, present participle tense, past tense and past participle tense of desired verb.

Past Tenses © 2020