Falter

Definitions: Falter

Falter

Noun

1. The act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech".

Verb

1. Be unsure or weak; "Their enthusiasm is faltering".

2. Move hesitatingly, as if about to give way.

3. Walk unsteadily.

4. Speak haltingly.

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

Date "falter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Falter

Failure

Limp, halt, hobble, titubate; fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on.

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).

Hopelessness

Verb: despair; lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope, relinquish all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the hope of, relinquish the hope of; give up, give over; yield to despair; falter; despond; (be dejected); jeter le manche apres la cognee.

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

Slowness

Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late).

Stammering

Verb: stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer; balbutiate, balbucinate, haw, hum and haw, be unable to put two words together.

Crosswords: Falter

German (butterflies, butterfly, folder, lepidoptera, moth).

Don't worry my boy, if you should falter, remember that Captain Darling and I are behind you. (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton)

But I won't stop and falter ("THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER"; performing artist: Howard Jones)

And if our way should falter ("Stuck In A Moment"; performing artist: U2)

Der Lose Falter (1938)

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

Books

• Even the brave Falter (reference)

• Faith That Does Not Falter (reference)

• Falter Tom and the Water Boy (reference)

• Makarius Falter (1762-1843) und sein M�nchner Musikverlag (1796-1888) (reference)

• Mobile Services Will Falter Without Nokia's Participation [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Don't Falter [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• Falter 2 [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco Medical Center / Original Painting By John Falter.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If however they become divided or falter in their duty and if these all-important years are allowed to slip away then indeed catastrophe may overwhelm us all. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Err, falter, sin, but be upright.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Kenya

Despite these impressive accomplishments, the economic growth rate has continued to falter. (references)

Haiti

In 1999, Haiti's economy began to falter after about 4 years of positive, though modest growth. (references)

Philippines

Export growth will falter further in 2001 as world economic growth and global electronics demand slow, combining with cyclical inventory adjustments to new-generation electronic products. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "falter": falter out. Additional references.

Albanian

ngurroj (boggle, demur, dither, halt, hang, hesitate, linger, pendulate, scruple, vacillate, wabble, waver, wobble), ngurrim (demur, dither, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, reluctance, reserve, shilly shally), ligështohem (droop, fail, faint, weaken), ligështim (failure), lëkundem (dangle, halt, hang, hesitate, jolt, jumble, nod, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, reel, rock, shake, shift, stagger, sway, swing, totter, vacillate, vibrate, wabble, wallow, wamble, waver, wobble), belbëzoj (flounder, haw, splutter, stammer, stutter), çapitje (hitch, hobble, shamble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشى مضطربا, ‏لفظ متلعثما, ‏تلعثم (fumble, gibber, halt, hem, hum and haw, jerk, stammer, stumble, stutter, trip), ‏ترنح (beat about the bush, feel groggy, grogginess, halt, limp, lurch, quiver, reel, rock, roll, shake, stagger, stumble, teeter, titubation, totter, walk with a wobble, waver, weave, welter), ‏تردد (ambivalence, backwards, balance, be in two minds, boggle, crane, demur, difficulty, dither, fainting, flicker, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, hang, haunt, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hover, hum and haw, indecision, irresolution, pause, perplexity, puzzle over, reticence, reverberate, scruple, shilly shally, sound, stick, stop, stumble, tergiversation, timidity, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, waver, wobble, worry), ‏تداعى (fall in with, tumble), ‏عى في الكلام. (various references)

Bulgarian 

уплашвам се (scare), спъвам се (stumble), колебая се (balance, boggle, chop, crane, demur, dilly dally, dither, fluctuate, hang back, hesitate, hover, hum and haw, jib, pause, pendulate, scruple, seesaw, shilly shally, teeter, vacillate, vibrate, waver, whiffle, wobble, yo-yo), колебание (demur, dubiety, faltering, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, hovel, indecision, oscillation, qualm, quandary, scruple, vacillation, variation, wabble, wavering, wobble), говоря неуверено (stutter), вървя несигурно (totter), засечка (backlash, fluff, hitch, kink, misfire), заеквам (hesitate, stammer, stutter), залитам (lurch, reel, stagger, stumble along, topple), западам (come down, decay, dwindle, fail, go back, molder, moulder, sag, sink, turn down), препъване (stumble, trip), дърпам се (balk, hang back, shy). (various references)

Chinese 

�'跚而行 (Faltered, Faltering), 衰退 (decline, drop, fall), 搖晃 . (various references)

Czech

zajíkavost, zajíkat se (hesitate, speak hesitantly, stutter), zajíkání (stutter), vynechávat (sputter), váhat (be in a dither, delay, dither, hang back, hesitate, hold back, procrastinate, scruple, shilly shally, stagger, temporize, vacillate, waver), slábnout (decline, die away, die down, ebb away, fade, fade away, fade out, fail, flag, weaken), přeskakovat, kolísat (fluctuate, oscillate, shake, stagger, sway, vacillate, vary, waver, wobble), jít nejistì. (various references)

Finnish

sopertaa (mumble, murmur, mutter, stammer), järkkyä (shake, tremble), horjua (stagger, totter, vacillate, waver). (various references)

French

vaciller, s'entrecouper, hésiter, hésitation (fainting), chancellement, chanceler. (various references)

German

zögern (demur, dilatoriness, hang back, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hold back, indecision, indecisions, lag, pause, procrastinate, procrastination, tarry, to demur, to hesitate, to pause, waver), wanken (rock, rolling, shake, stagger, sway, teeter, totter, vacillate, waver, wobble), stocken (be halted, be held up, become mildewed, break off, catch, cease, come to a halt, Curdle, go moldy, go sour, halt, hesitate, make no progress, miss a beat, roughening by picking, scabbling, skip a beat, slacken off, stagnate, stop, stop short, stumble, thicken), steckenbleiben (be bogged down, be lodged, be stuck, get bogged down, get caught, get fouled, get stuck, Lodge, stick fast, to get stuck). (various references)

Greek 

παραπαίω (flop, flounder, totter), τραυλίζω (gibber, haw, lisp, splutter, stammer, stutter), διστάζω (boggle, demur, dilly dally, doggle, hang back, have second thoughts, hesitate, hesitate about, pause, scruple to, shilly-sally, shrink from, waver). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפקפק (doubt, hesitate, query, suspect, vacillate, waver, wobble), ל�"סס (boggle, hesitate, hum and haw, vacillate, waver), ל�"בר ב�"סס� ות. (various references)

Hungarian

megbotlik (the best of men may err at times, to bump, to stumble, to trip, to trip up), dadog (stammer, stutter, to stammer, to stutter), akadozik (to check, to clog, to clog up, to jam, to stall). (various references)

Italian

vacillare (dither, flicker, jiggle, reel, shake, sway, swim, totter, wabble, waver, wobble), impappinarsi (get flustered, stumble), esitare (boggle, demur, halt, hesitance, hesitate, scruple, shilly shally, to find a market, to sell, wabble, waver, wobble), barcollare (lurch, reel, stagger, sway, teeter, totter, vacillate, wabble, waver, wobble), balbettare (babble, babbling, stammer, stutter). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

た�"焼き (cringing, octopus dumplings, overwhelmed, recoiling, to falter, to wince), 澱む (to be precipitated, to be sedimented, to be sluggish, to be stagnant, to deposit, to falter, to hesitate, to settle, to stagnate, to stammer, to stumble), 怯む (to falter), 淀む (to be precipitated, to be sedimented, to be sluggish, to be stagnant, to deposit, to falter, to hesitate, to settle, to stagnate, to stammer, to stumble), 口� る (to falter, to hem and haw, to hesitate to say, to mumble), 口篭る (to falter, to hem and haw, to hesitate to say, to mumble), 口�"もる (to falter, to hem and haw, to hesitate to say, to mumble). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たじろぐ (to falter, to wince), くち�"もる (to falter, to hem and haw, to hesitate to say, to mumble), ひるむ (to falter), よどむ (to be precipitated, to be sedimented, to be sluggish, to be stagnant, to deposit, to falter, to hesitate, to settle, to stagnate, to stammer, to stumble). (various references)

Korean 

비�"�거리으십시�". (various references)

Manx

tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering). (various references)

Norwegian

svikte (fail, forsake), snuble (stumble), nøle (hesitate, linger). (various references)

Pig Latin

alterfay.(various references)

Portuguese

falsidade (double dealing, eyewash, falsehood, falsetto, flambeau, insinuate, lie, lying, perfidy, prevarication, sham, tale, untruth), vacilar (boggle, chop, crane, diddle, flinch, fluctuate, hand baggage, hesitate, nidificate, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, quail, quiver, repose, shilly shally, shuffle, stagger, sway, teeter, toddle, totter, tremble, vacillate, waver), vacilação (boggle, flicker, shilly shally, vacillation, wavering), hesitar (balance, boggle, doubt, flinch, flour, fluctuate, halt, hesitate, lingerer, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, repose, scruple, shilly shally, teeter, waver), gaguejar (burble, flounder, haw, hemal, stammer, stutter). (various references)

Romanian

tremura (cower, dither, flicker, palpitate, quail, quake, quaver, quiver, reel, ripple, rock, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, throb, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobble), se clãtina (lurch, quake, reel, shake, stagger, swerve, swing, totter, vacillate, waddle, waggle, wobble), ezita (back, boggle, crane, demur, fluctuate, halt, hang, hesitate, hobble, hold back, pause, scruple, shilly shally, stagger, stand off, stand on, sway, vacillate, veer, waver, wobble), şovãi (back, boggle, fluctuate, hang back, hesitate, linger, pause, shilly shally, shuffle, spare, stagger, vacillate, waver). (various references)

Russian 

спотыкаться (trip up, tripped), говорить заикаясь, запинаться (hobble, hum and haw, trip up), идти неуверенно. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

posrnuti (stumble). (various references)

Spanish

titubear (Dicker, dilly dally, hesitate, nutate, shilly shally, stagger, stammer, waver). (various references)

Swedish

stappla (dodder, hobble, stagger, stumble, totter), stamma (stammer, stem, stutter). (various references)

Thai

เ�"ินสะ�"ุ�", พู�"ตะกุกตะกัก (jerk), ขา�"ความมั่นใจ. (various references)

Turkish

yalpalamak (pitch, shimmy, stagger, swing, totter, wobble), titremek (dither, dodder, flicker, flutter, jerk, judder, pulsate, pulse, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shimmy, shiver, shudder, thrill, throb, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobble), tereddüd etmek (balk at, be vague about smth., dither, halt, hesitate, oscillate, pause, pendulate, scruple, seesaw, shilly shally, stagger, stickle, vacillate, vibrate, waver, wobble, yaw), sersem sersem yürümek, sendelemek (blunder, careen, dodder, halt, lurch, pitch, reel, stagger, stumble, swing, teeter, topple, totter, waver, wobble), kekelemek (have a stutter, stammer, stutter), duraksamak (balk, baulk, come to a stop, dither, halt, hang back, hesitate, hobble, hover, pause, vibrate, waver), bocalamak (be in two minds, flounder, fluctuate, fluster, get confused, halt, oscillate, stagger, teeter, vacillate, waver, wobble). (various references)

Ukranian 

спотикатися (blunder into, chip, flounder, stammer, stumble, titubate, trip), вагатися (balance, boggle, deliberate, demur, dilly dally, fluctuate, halt, hesitate, hover, oscillate, pause, stagger, vacillate, vibrate, waver, whiffle), затинатися (hobble, stumble, stutter), похитуватися (jiggle, lurch). (various references)

Welsh

bloesgi (lisp, speak indistinctly). (various references)

claudamus, claudat, claude, claudent, claudentur, clauderetur, claudet, claudetur, claudeturque, claudi, claudit, clauditis, clausa, clausae, clausas, clauserat, clauserit, clausero, clauserunt, clausi, clausis, clausisset, clausit, clausitque, clauso, clausos, clausum, clausus, claususque. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "falter": faltered, falterer, falterers, faltering, falteringly, falters. (additional references)

Words containing "falter": unfaltering, unfalteringly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Falter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: facteur, failte, falate, Falette, Falster, falta, falten, falterd, Fatar, fatber, fater, faulter, fauter, Fekter, felther, fetler, fillter, filther, filtre, flater, Flateyri, flator, flauer, Folten, fulfer, fulger, Fulter, malter, Valtre. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: after, alert, alter, artel, farle, feral, fetal, flare, later, ratel, taler.

-2 letters: alef, earl, fare, farl, fart, fate, feal, fear, feat, felt, feta, flat, flea, frae, frat, fret, late, leaf, lear, left, raft, rale, rate, real, reft, tael, tale, tare, teal, tear, tela, tref.

-3 letters: aft, ale, alt, are, arf, art, ate, ear, eat, eft, elf, era, eta, far, fat, fer, fet, lar, lat, lea, let, rat, ref, ret, tae, tar, tea, tel.

-4 letters: ae, al, ar, at, ef, el, er, et, fa, la, re, ta.

+1 letter: falters, flatter, floater, reflate, refloat, refutal, tearful.

+2 letters: aflutter, deflater, deflator, faltered, falterer, fatherly, faultier, featlier, fellator, filature, filtrate, flatters, flattery, flatware, flaunter, fleawort, floaters, floatier, forestal, frailest, grateful, inflater, leftward, reflated, reflates, refloats, refutals, taffarel, tafferel.

+3 letters: afterclap, afterglow, afterlife, airlifted, defaulter, deflaters, deflators, delftware, draftable, falterers, faltering, fellators, fenestral, filatures, filtrable, filtrated, filtrates, flatliner, flattener, flattered, flatterer, flatwares, flaunters, flauntier, fleaworts, floriated, forestall, forestial, formulate, fortalice, frailties, fraternal, fulgurate, heartfelt, inflaters, lakefront, laticifer, leftwards, masterful, reflating, reflation, refloated, refutable, refutably, reinflate, taffarels, tafferels, tearfully, ultrafine, ultraleft, ultrasafe, waterfall, waterfowl, waterleaf, welfarist.

+4 letters: afferently, afterclaps, afterglows, afterlives, afterworld, artfulness, clofibrate, defalcator, defaulters, deflagrate, defoliator, delftwares, factorable, fastballer, fatherland, fatherless, fatherlike, federalist, fibrillate, filterable, flatlander, flatliners, flatteners, flatterers, flatteries, flattering, floodwater, fluoridate, fluorinate, flycatcher, flyswatter, footballer, forecastle, forestalls, forestland, formulated, formulates, fortalices, fragmental, fraudulent, fulgurated, fulgurates, gratefully, infiltrate, lakefronts, laticifers, leafleteer, malefactor, perfoliate, platterful, prefrontal, profitable, profligate, quatrefoil, reflations, refloating, refractile, reinflated, reinflates, rijsttafel, softballer, starflower, transferal, trifoliate, ultrafiche, ungrateful, waterfalls, waterflood, waterfowls, waterleafs, welfarists, wolframite.

+5 letters: afterworlds, allografted, antiwelfare, battlefront, beautifuler, calefactory, carefullest, centrifugal, certifiable, certifiably, clofibrates, comfortable, crestfallen, defalcators, deferential, deflagrated, deflagrates, defloration, defoliators, factorylike, falteringly, farthingale, fastballers, fatherlands, faultfinder, fearfullest, featherless, featureless, federalists, felicitator, fermentable, fibrillated, fibrillates, filamentary, firmamental, flabbergast, flatlanders, floodwaters, fluoridated, fluoridates, fluorinated, fluorinates, flycatchers, flyswatters, footballers, footlambert, forecastles, forestalled, forestaller, forestlands, forfeitable, forgettable, formalities, formatively, fortunately, fragilities, franklinite, fraternally, frugalities, gratefuller, halfhearted, inferential, infiltrated, infiltrates, interfacial, interfamily, irrefutable, irrefutably, lactiferous, leafleteers, leatherleaf, malefactors, masterfully, overinflate, patelliform, platterfuls, plattersful, prefectural, prefrontals, profligates, proliferate, quatrefoils, rectifiable, referential, reflectance, reformulate, reinflating, reinflation, rijsttafels, softballers, starflowers, strawflower, tearfulness, thankfuller, trafficable, transferals, ultrafiches, unfaltering, vitrifiable, waterfloods, waterfowler, wolframites.

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