Irresolute

Definition: Irresolute

Irresolute

Adjective

1. Uncertain how to act or proceed; "the committee was timid and mediocre and irresolute".

2. Lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly; "stood irresolute waiting for some inspiration".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "irresolute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Synonyms: Irresolute

Changeableness

Unstaid, inconstant; unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled; fluctuating; Verb: restless; agitated; erratic, fickle; irresolute; capricious; touch and go; inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic; vibratory; vagrant, wayward; desultory; afloat; alternating; alterable, plastic, mobile; transient; wavering.

Fear

Hesitate; (be irresolute); falter, funk, cower, crouch; skulk; (cowardice); let " I dare not" wait upon "I would "; take fright, take alarm; start, wince, flinch, shy, shrink; fly; (avoid).

Irresolution

Verb: be irresolute; Adjective: hang in suspense, keep in suspense; leave "ad referendum"; think twice about, pause; dawdle; (inactivity); remain neuter; dillydally, hesitate, boggle, hover, dacker, hum and haw, demur, not know one's own mind; debate, balance; dally with, coquet with; will and will not, chaser-balancer; go halfway, compromise, make a compromise; be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man; be afraid; let "I dare not" wait upon "I would"; falter, waver

Adjective: irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted; undecided, unresolved, undetermined; shilly-shally; fidgety, tremulous; hesitating; Verb: off one's balance; at a loss; (uncertain).

Tergiversation

Adjective: changeful; irresolute; ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving; coquetting; Verb:

Crosswords: Irresolute

Books

• Irresolute Princes: Kremlin Decision Making in Middle East Crises, 1967-1973 (reference)

• The Irresolute Rivals (reference)

• The irresolute years : American congressional opinion towards Japan, 1937-1941 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Little Henry was in her thoughts, and a mixture of alarm and delicacy made her irresolute what else to say.

It is a kind of irresolute lovingness which is revealed by chance, and which is waiting

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "irresolute": be irresolute ♦ irresolute person. Additional references.

Albanian

i pavendosur (dubious, hesitant, indecisive, purposeless, sticky, suspensive, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unsteady). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متردد (ambivalent, chary, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, faint-hearted, faltering, flickering, haunting, hesitant, hesitating, indecisive, infirm, remittent, stammerer, tentative, timid, uncertain, undecided, unsettled, vacillating, wavering), ‏مزعزع (unstable), ‏غير حازم (infirm, undetermined). (various references)

Bulgarian 

колеблив (backward, doubtful, dubious, faltering, fitful, halting, hesitant, hesitating, infirm, labile, pendulous, queasy, rickety, rocky, tardy, tentative, vacillating, versatile, wavering, wobbly, yo-yo), неустановен (amorphous, equivocal, unadjusted, unestablished, unspecified, yeasty), несигурен (build on sand, chancy, dangerous, disputable, dubious, equivocal, faltering, halting, insecure, long, pendulous, precarious, problematic, queasy, risky, rocky, shaky, slippy, suspensive, tentative, top heavy, tottery, treacherous, uncertain, uneasy, unreliable, unresolved, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy, variable, versatile, wonky), нерешителен (double-minded, faltering, half hearted, hesitant, hesitative, indecisive, indeterminate, purposeless, shilly shally, suspensive, undecided, undetermined, unready, unresolved, weak). (various references)

Chinese 

躕 (undecided), 犹豫不决 (INDECISION, indecisive), 憧 (unsettled), 徊 (move back and forth), 徬 , 徘 , 徨 , 佪 (move back and forth), 彷 (seemingly), 俳 (not serious, variety show). (various references)

Czech

váhavý (faltering, half hearted, hesitant, infirm, loath, tentative, uncertain), nerozhodný (drawn, even, fifty fifty, half hearted, hesitant, indecisive, unassertive, undecided). (various references)

Dutch

besluiteloos (indecisive, undecided). (various references)

Esperanto

hezitema (undecided). (various references)

Finnish

päättämätön (not decided, unbalanced, undecided), neuvoton (at a loss, in a state of indecision, indecisive), epäröivä (doubtful, hesitating, undecided, wavering). (various references)

French

irrésolu, indécis, vacillatoire, hésitant. (various references)

German

unentschlossen (hesitant, iffy, indecisive, irresolutely, namby-pamby, seesawed, undecided, undecisive, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, vacillating, waveringly). (various references)

Greek 

αναποφάσιστοσ (indecisive, undecided, undetermined, waverer), αμφίρροποσ (in the balance), αμφίγνωμοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מפקפק (dubious), לא �"חלטי (undecided), פקפק� י (hesitant), �"סס� י (hesitant, indecisive, indeterminate, tentative, timid). (various references)

Hungarian

határozatlan (equivocal, hesitant, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicit, infirm, invertebrate, obscure, shilly shally, shilly-shally, to be on the hedge, transcendental, undecided, undecisive, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, weak-kneed), bizonytalan (choppy, cranky, dicey, dim, dubious, elusive, equivocal, faint, faltering, fickle, have cold feet, hazy, hesitating, indefinite, indeterminate, insecure, nondescript, obscure, pennky, precarious, questionable, sandy, scratchy, shaky, speculative, suspensive, to be in the air, to hang in the air, to hang in the balance, transcendental, uncertain, unsettled, unsteady, unsure, vague, woozy). (various references)

Indonesian

ragu-ragu (doubt, dubious, hesitate, undecided). (various references)

Italian

irresoluto (infirm), indeciso (indecisive, undecided, unsettled), incerto (aleatory, borderline, dim, doubtful, dubious, in question, open, questionable, shadowy, tentative, touch and go, uncertain, unclear, undecided, unsettled, unsure, vague). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

い�"石 (annoying, fearfully, gingerly, hesitant, in swarms, itching to do something, meteorite, sorely tempted). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うじうじ (hesitant). (various references)

Korean 

결단� �이 없�". (various references)

Manx

faitagh (cowardly, fearful, shy, shy person, timid, timid person), corragh (chequered, chequered as career, crazy, eccentric, erratic, falling, hectic, infirm, jerry-built, rocky place, sensitive, skittish, troubled, troubled of period, unbalanced, unbalanced of mind, uneven, uneven as temper, wobbly). (various references)

Norwegian

ubesluttsom (indecisive). (various references)

Pig Latin

irresoluteay.(various references)

Portuguese

irresoluto (double-minded, half-hearted, hesitant, indecisive, infirm, shilly-shally, undecided, undetermined, unready, unresolved, unsettled, unsolved, unsteady, up in the air, vacillating, wavering, weak-kneed), indeciso (blear, double-minded, doubtful, drawn, feckless, fitful, half-hearted, halting, indecisive, indeterminate, lacklustre, pendant, pendent, pending, shilly-shally, suspended, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unsolved, unsteady, up in the air, vacillating, vague, wavering), hesitante (deliberate, diffident, double-minded, doubting, dubious, faltering, fumbling, half-hearted, halting, hesitant, indecisive, limp, perplexed, reluctant, undecided, unresolved, vacillating, wavering, wobbly). (various references)

Romanian

indecis (vague), nehotãrât (at pause, doubtful, dubitative, hesitating, indecisive, indefinite, infirm of purpose, namby-pamby, pendent, pending, undecided, vague), nedecis (drawn, pendent, pending, undecided, undetermined), şovãitor (at pause, doubtful, dubious, faltering, flexuous, halting, hesitant, hesitating, hesitatingly, reluctant, shilly shally, tremulous, uncertain, undecided, wavering, waveringly), şovãielnic (backward, hesitating, undecided, wavering). (various references)

Russian 

колеблющийся (hesitant, hesitating, hesitative, labile, vacillating, vibratory, waverer, wavy), нерешительный (double minded, double-minded, half hearted, halfhearted, half-hearted, hesitating, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, shilly shally, spiritless, suspensive, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, vacillating). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neodlučan (ambivalent, half hearted, halfhearted, hesitant, hesitative, indecisive, lackadaisical, undecided, undecisive, wavering, weak-minded, wishy washy). (various references)

Spanish

irresoluto (double-minded, feeble minded, indecisive, purposeless), indeciso (indecisive, procrastinator, purposeless, undecided, undecisive, waverer, waveringly). (various references)

Swedish

tveksam (doubtful, doubtfull, hesitant, in doubt, uncertain, undecided, unsettled), obeslutsam (indecisive, infirm, undecided). (various references)

Turkish

iradesiz (feeble minded, flabby, flaccid, invertebrate, non compos, non compos mentis, simple, spineless, volitionless, weak, weak-kneed, weak-minded), tereddüdlü (faltering, halting, hesitant, shilly shally, suspensive, tentative), kararsız (ambivalent, astatic, baffling, changeable, changeful, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, erratic, faltering, fickle, flighty, fluctuating, flukey, fluky, fluxional, halting, hazy, hesitant, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, precarious, restless, shilly shally, uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vagabond, vague, wayward, weak-kneed). (various references)

Ukrainian

нерішучий (backward, double-minded, faltering, half hearted, hesitant, indecisive, pendulous, shilly shally, sticky, suspensive, undecided, undetermined, unready, unresolved, unsteadfast, vacillating, vague, wavery, weak). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiếu quả quyết, phân vân, lưỡng lự thiếu quyết tâm, do dự (double-minded, dubitative, hesitant, hesitatingly, hesitative, indecisive, indeterminate, shilly-shally, suspensive, undecided, undecisive, undetermined, unsettled, wavering). (various references)

Welsh

amhenfenderfynol. (various references)

dubito. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "irresolute": irresolutely, irresoluteness, irresolutenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Irresolute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: irresolate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: loiterers, resoluter.

-2 letters: loiterer, outliers, reroutes, resolute, sultrier, ulterior.

-3 letters: estriol, etoiles, leister, leisure, loiters, lorries, lousier, lustier, outlier, outlies, reliers, reroute, restore, retiles, retires, retries, rioters, roister, rouster, routers, ruliest, rustier, rustler, rutiles, soilure, soleret, sterile, stourie, surlier, terries, toilers, tourers, troilus, trouser, ureters.

-4 letters: elites, elutes, etoile, listee, lister, liters, litres, loiter.

+2 letters: fluorimeters, irresolutely.

+3 letters: fluorimetries, fluorometries, reregulations, temerariously.

+4 letters: counterrallies, interreligious, irresoluteness, meretriciously, resurrectional, reupholstering, tetrafluorides.

+5 letters: antiforeclosure, electrosurgical, overarticulates, overregulations, reconstructible, revolutionaries, revolutionizers.