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Definition: Irresolution |
IrresolutionNoun1. Doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action; "his indecision was only momentary but the opportunity was lost". 2. The trait of being irresolute; lacking firmness of purpose. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "irresolution" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: IrresolutionSynonyms: indecision (n), indecisiveness (n), irresoluteness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: resoluteness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Irresolution | Noun: irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision; indetermination, undetermination; unsettlement; uncertainty; demur, suspense; hesitating; Verb:, hesitation, hesitancy; vacillation; changeableness; fluctuation; alternation; (oscillation); caprice. |
Physical Inertness | Mental inertness; sloth; (inactivity); inexcitability; irresolution; obstinacy; permanence. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Irresolution |
| English words defined with "irresolution": indecision, indecisiveness ♦ Misdoubt ♦ Out of doubt ♦ Shilly-shally. (references) |
| Play | Caption |
 | Suspense; anxiety; apprehension; chiller; cliff-hanger; expectancy; expectation; grabber; hesitancy; hesitation; impatience; indecision; indecisiveness; insecurity; irresolution; page-turner; perplexity; potboiler; tension; thriller; uncertainty; tense; i. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Irresolution" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Irresolution" 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
irresolution | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "irresolution"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pavendosmëri (hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, vacillation). (various references) | |
Arabic | حيرة (bewilderment, confusion, discomfiture, disconcertion, dismay, distraction, embarrassment, hesitance, hesitancy, indecision, maze, mystification, nonplus, perplexedly, perplexity, puzzle, puzzlement, tangle), تردد (ambivalence, backwards, balance, be in two minds, boggle, crane, demur, difficulty, dither, fainting, falter, flicker, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, hang, haunt, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hover, hum and haw, indecision, pause, perplexity, puzzle over, reticence, reverberate, scruple, shilly shally, sound, stick, stop, stumble, tergiversation, timidity, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, waver, wobble, worry). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | колебливост (doubling, inconsistency, inconstancy, vacillation, versatility), неустановеност (doubling, incertitude), нерешителност (diffidence, hesitation, indecision, shilly shally, wavering), непостоянство (changeability, fickleness, inconstancy, instability, mercuriality, mobility, uncertainty, vacillation, variability, volatility, wabble, wobble). (various references) | |
Czech | váhavost (hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision), nerozhodnost (hesitation, indecision). (various references) | |
Danish | ubeslutsomhed. (various references) | |
Dutch | besluiteloosheid (indecision, infirmity of purpose). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝanceliĝemo (indecision, infirmity of purpose). (various references) | |
French | irrésolution. (various references) | |
German | unschlüssigkeit (hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, irresoluteness, vacillation), unentschlossenheit (inconclusiveness, indecision, irresoluteness, irresolutions, undecidedness, undecisiveness, vacillation). (various references) | |
Greek | αναποφάσιστο (indecision, irresoluteness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tétovázás (demur, halt, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, humming, shilly-shally, staggering, wabble, wobble), habozás (demur, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, oscillation, shilly-shally, staggering, wobble). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keragu-raguan (dubitation, hesitancy, hesitation). (various references) | |
Italian | irresolutezza (infirmity). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不決断 (indecision, vacillation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふけつ " (indecision, vacillation). (various references) | |
Manx | faitys (cowardice, shyness, timidity, trepidation), corrid (eccentricity, instability). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irresolutionay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | irresolução (demur, shilly-shally, wavering). (various references) | |
Romanian | nehotãrâre (hesitation, indecision), şovãire (chops and changes, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, stagger, stumble, wavering). (various references) | |
Russian | нерешительность (backing and filling, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, shilly shally, wavering). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neodlučnost (hesitance, hesitancy, indecision, shakiness, shilly shally). (various references) | |
Spanish | irresolución (demur, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision). (various references) | |
Swedish | villrådighet (hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indetermination), vankelmod (fluctuation, inconstancy), obeslutsamhet (indecision). (various references) | |
Turkish | tereddüd (demur, doubt, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, indecision, indeterminate, oscillation, pause, perplexity, puzzle, quandary, shilly shally, suspense, uncertainty, vacillation, vibration, wobble), kararsızlık (changeability, dither, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fickleness, flightiness, fluctuation, haziness, hesitance, hesitancy, incertitude, inconsistency, indecision, indeterminate, infirmity, infirmity of purpose, instability, looseness, oscillation, quandary, shilly shally, suspense, uncertainty, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нерішучість (backwardness, doubtfulness, embarrassment, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, pause, shilly shally, weakness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự phân vân (hover, swither), sự lưỡng lự (demur, doubt, doubtfulness, dubitation, hesitance, hesitancy, incertitude, shilly-shally, swither, wabble, wobble), sự do dự (demur, dubitation, indecision, oscillation, shilly-shally). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dubitatione. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "irresolution": irresolutions. (additional references) | |
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"Irresolution" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: irreso-lution. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "irresolution" (pronounced 'Ir*res`o*lu"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-n-o-o-r-r-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: resolution. | |
-3 letters: interiors, outliners. | |
-4 letters: elutions, inositol, insulter, interior, introrse, lioniser, looniest, loriners, neuritis, nitriles, oestriol, oilstone, outliers, outliner, outlines, outsnore, retinols, roiliest, routines, snootier, snoutier, solution, sultrier, turnsole, ulterior, utiliser. | |
-5 letters: elision, elusion, elution, enroots, entoils, erosion, estriol, inliers, inosite, insurer, inutile, iolites, ironers, ironies, ironist, isoline, isotone, liniest, linters, lintier, lionise, loiters. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-n-o-o-r-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: irresolutions. | |
+3 letters: revolutionaries, revolutionizers. | |
+4 letters: neuroradiologist, trinitrotoluenes. | |
+5 letters: neuroradiologists, revolutionariness. | |
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