Hesitatingly

Definition: Hesitatingly

Hesitatingly

Adverb

1. With hesitation; in a hesitant manner; "he finally accepted hesitantly".

Date "hesitatingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1811. (references)

Synonym: Hesitatingly

Synonym: hesitantly (adv). (additional references)

Antonym: unhesitatingly (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Hesitatingly

English words defined with "hesitatingly": falter ♦ waver. (references)

"Hesitatingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hesitatingly" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	13	97,576

Language		Translations for "hesitatingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		në mëdyshje (haltingly, hesitant, hesitantly, perplexed, puzzled, vacillating), me ngurrim (hesitantly), me dy mendje (hesitantly), duke ngecur (hesitantly), duke iu marrë goja (hesitantly). (various references)

Arabic		‏بشكل مشكوك به. (various references)

Bulgarian		заекващо. (various references)

Czech		váhavì (begrudgingly, doubtfully, half-heartedly, hesitantly). (various references)

Finnish		epäröiden. (various references)

French		avec hésitation (hesitantly). (various references)

German		zögerten. (various references)

Hungarian		habozva (doubtfully, hesitantly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ぐうぐう寝ちゃう (accomplice, approximately, cohort, completely exhausted, dead tired, enervated, fast, fast asleep, firmly, flabby, flexible, hanging around, indecisiveness, limp, lolling, more, much, noticeably, Okinawan fortress, pulpy, remarkably, senseless, sloppy, slowly, soft, soppy, sound asleep, sound of rinsing one's mouth, splat!, steadily, tardily, tired, to be unsteady, to fall sound asleep, to reel, to shake, to stray from the right path, turning round and round). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぐずぐず (slowly, tardily). (various references)

Pig Latin		esitatinglyhay

Portuguese		mostrar-se indeciso (nutation), com hesitação (perplexedly). (various references)

Romanian		şovãitor (at pause, doubtful, dubious, faltering, flexuous, halting, hesitant, hesitating, irresolute, reluctant, shilly shally, tremulous, uncertain, undecided, wavering, waveringly). (various references)

Russian		нерешительно (faint-heartedly, halfheartedly, half-heartedly, hesitantly, spiritlessly, suspensively). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oklevajući (hesitating). (various references)

Spanish		con vacilación (haltingly). (various references)

Turkish		tereddüdle (doubtfully, in suspense, shilly shally), duraksayarak. (various references)

Ukranian		вагаючись (hesitantly), нерішуче (faint-heartedly, hesitantly), затинаючись (hesitantly). (various references)

Vietnamese		ngập ngừng (hesitant, hesitative), lưỡng lự (double-minded, doubtful, dubious, dubitative, haltingly, hesitant, hesitative, indecisive, seesaw, shilly-shally, undecided, unsteady), không nhất quyết (hesitant, hesitative, iffy), do dự (double-minded, dubitative, hesitant, hesitative, indecisive, indeterminate, irresolute, shilly-shally, suspensive, undecided, undecisive, undetermined, unsettled, wavering). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "hesitatingly": unhesitatingly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "hesitatingly" (pronounced 'Hes"i*ta`ting*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-i-l-n-s-t-t-y"
	-2 letters: ethylating, hesitantly, hesitating.
	-3 letters: athelings, gainliest, geniality, gentility, gnathites, hygienist, instigate, litigants, litigates, stithying, tangliest, teasingly, tensility, tingliest.
	-4 letters: alienist, atheling, estating, ethinyls, gahnites, gantlets, gelatins, genitals, gnathite, healings, heisting, hesitant, hyalines, hyalites, hygieist, intitles, lathiest, lathings, latinity, leashing, lightens, lightest, lignites, lingiest, lintiest, litanies, litigant, litigate, nighties, nilghais, nylghais, salinity, senility, settling.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-i-l-n-s-t-t-y"
	+2 letters: unhesitatingly.
	+4 letters: hyperstimulating.
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