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Definition: Faltering |
FalteringAdjective1. Unsteady in speech or action. Noun1. The act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "faltering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: FalteringSynonyms: falter (n), hesitation (n), waver (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Irresolution | Adverb: irresolutely; Adjective: irresolved, irresolvedly; in faltering accents; off and on; from pillar to post; seesaw. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Suriname | The NF ran its campaign on a platform to fix the faltering Surinamese economy. (references) |
Guinea | In mid-1996, in response to the coup attempt and a faltering economy, President Conté appointed a new government as part of a flurry of reform activity. (references) | |
Democratic Republic of Congo | In late 1989 and early 1990, Mobutu was weakened by a series of domestic protests, by heightened international criticism of his regime's human rights practices, and by a faltering economy. (references) | |
Political Economy | Guatemala | His critics expressed concern over corruption in government, a faltering economy, increasing unemployment, a return to deficit spending, stagnation of the peace process, and an increase in common crime. (references) |
Senegal | Limited natural resources and a faltering economy limited the reaches of this social network, and failure of state-owned companies to drive the economy and provide revenues to the government led to a gradual change toward a more market-oriented approach. (references) | |
COLOMBIA | However, in 1999, such rating companies (namely Standard & Poors, Moody's, and Duff & Phelps) downgraded Colombia's debt to "speculative grade," citing Colombia's faltering peace process, increased security concerns, and insufficient progress in fiscal consolidation. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Faltering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Faltering" is used about 70 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 71.43% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.57% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 70 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "faltering": in faltering accents. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "faltering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ngurrues (diffident, hesitant, hesitating, indecisive, loath, loth, reluctant, vacillating). (various references) | |
Arabic | متلعثم (stammering), متقلقل (shaky, tottering, unsteady, upset), مترنح (drunken, groggy, reeling, rocky, shaky, staggering, tottering, tottery), متردد (ambivalent, chary, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, faint-hearted, flickering, haunting, hesitant, hesitating, indecisive, infirm, irresolute, remittent, stammerer, tentative, timid, uncertain, undecided, unsettled, vacillating, wavering), متداعى. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | колебание (demur, dubiety, falter, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, hovel, indecision, oscillation, qualm, quandary, scruple, vacillation, variation, wabble, wavering, wobble), колеблив (backward, doubtful, dubious, fitful, halting, hesitant, hesitating, infirm, irresolute, labile, pendulous, queasy, rickety, rocky, tardy, tentative, vacillating, versatile, wavering, wobbly, yo-yo), несигурен (build on sand, chancy, dangerous, disputable, dubious, equivocal, halting, insecure, irresolute, 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, half hearted, hesitant, hesitative, indecisive, indeterminate, irresolute, purposeless, shilly shally, suspensive, undecided, undetermined, unready, unresolved, weak), залитане (lurch, reel, stumble), запъване (hesitation, splutter), боязлив (chickenhearted, milk-livered, shy, timorous, tremulous). (various references) | |
Chinese | '跚而行 (Falter, Faltered). (various references) | |
Czech | zajíkaný, váhavý (half hearted, hesitant, infirm, irresolute, loath, tentative, uncertain), slábnoucí, přeskakující, nejistý (afloat, chancy, cloudy, doubtful, dubious, fluid, halting, insecure, jumpy, precarious, shaky, suspensive, tenuous, uncertain, undecided, uneasy, uneven, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unsure). (various references) | |
Finnish | häilyvä (fickle, inconstant, wavering). (various references) | |
French | hésitant, entrecoupé. (various references) | |
German | schwankend (dizzily, fickle, firmless, fluctuating, hesitant, oscillating, pitching, rocking, rolling, seesawing, shakily, shaking, staggering, swaying, toddling, tottering, uncertain, uneven, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, varying, wavering, wobbling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tétovázó (hesitant, indecisive, irresolute, shilly-shally, wobbly). (various references) | |
Italian | barcollante (groggy, staggering, tottery). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 躊躇い (hesitation), 訥訥 (halting), 吃り (a stammer, a stutter). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ためらい (hesitation), どもり (a stammer, a stutter, gradation), とつとつ (clicking, exclamation of surprise, groaning, halting). (various references) | |
Korean | 비"거리음. (various references) | |
Manx | lhoobagh (arching, bending, bowing, coiled, convoluted, crooked, crooked morally, curved, curvilinear, inflexional, limber, plastic, pliable, serpentine, shifty, sinuous, snakiness, supple, terry, tortuous, twisting, vermiculate, willowy, winding), lhag (baggy, dent, depressed, dim, easy fitting, feeble, flaccid, flagging, frail in health, ineffective). (various references) | |
Norwegian | vaklende, usikker (insecure), nølende. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alteringfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vacilante (fitful, flickering, floating, limp, rickety, shaky, shilly-shally, tipsy, trembling, vacillating, wavering, wobbly, wonky), hesitante (deliberate, diffident, double-minded, doubting, dubious, fumbling, half-hearted, halting, hesitant, indecisive, irresolute, limp, perplexed, reluctant, undecided, unresolved, unsteady, vacillating, wavering, wobbly), gaguejante. (various references) | |
Romanian | tremurãtor (quaking, quavery, quivering, shaky, trembling, tremulous), şovãitor (at pause, doubtful, dubious, flexuous, halting, hesitant, hesitating, hesitatingly, irresolute, reluctant, shilly shally, tremulous, uncertain, undecided, wavering, waveringly). (various references) | |
Russian | запинающийся (halting). (various references) | |
Scottish | lapach (benumbed, feeble, impotent). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nesiguran (dickey, dicky, diffident, dotty, doubtful, insecure, precarious, shaky, uncertain, uneasy, unsafe, unsound, unsure, waggly, wildcat, wonky), drhteći. (various references) | |
Spanish | vacilante (halting, hesitant, indecisive, niddle-noddle, shaky, shilly shally, vacillating, wavering), entrecortado (abrupt, broken, labored, laboured). (various references) | |
Swedish | tvekande (hesitant, hesitating, shilly shally), stapplande (tottering, tottery). (various references) | |
Turkish | tutuk (timid, uneasy), titrek (doddering, doddery, flickering, plangent, quavery, shaking, shaky, shivery, tipsy, trembling, tremulous, wavering, wavy, wobbly), tereddüdlü (halting, hesitant, irresolute, shilly shally, suspensive, tentative), kekeleme (stammer, stammering, stuttering), kararsız (ambivalent, astatic, baffling, changeable, changeful, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, erratic, fickle, flighty, fluctuating, flukey, fluky, fluxional, halting, hazy, hesitant, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, irresolute, precarious, restless, shilly shally, uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vagabond, vague, wayward, weak-kneed), duraksamalı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тремтячий (jittery, palsied, quaking, quavery, shivery, trembling, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, vacillating), нерішучий (backward, double-minded, half hearted, hesitant, indecisive, irresolute, pendulous, shilly shally, sticky, suspensive, undecided, undetermined, unready, unresolved, unsteadfast, vacillating, vague, wavery, weak). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ấp úng. (various references) | |
Welsh | bloesg (indistinct, lisping). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "faltering": falteringly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "faltering": unfaltering. (additional references) | |
Words containing "faltering": unfalteringly. (additional references) | |
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"Faltering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fattering, faultering, Felperin, filmerian, flatering, footering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "faltering" (pronounced fô"ltering) |
| 6 | -ô" l t er i ng | altering. |
| 5 | -l t er i ng | filtering, sheltering, sweltering. |
| 4 | -t er i ng | administering, bantering, bartering, battering, bettering, blistering, blustering, bolstering, catering, centering, chartering, chattering, clustering, cluttering, countering, doctoring, encountering, entering, factoring, festering, filibustering, flattering, fluttering, fostering, frittering, glittering, guttering, hectoring, lettering, littering, loitering, mastering, mentoring, metering, mitering, monitoring, motoring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neutering, pestering, petering, plastering, puttering, reentering, registering, scattering, sculpturing, sequestering, shattering, shuttering, slaughtering, smattering, spattering, splintering, sputtering, stuttering, teetering, tottering, tutoring, unflattering, uttering, watering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | answering, anchoring, angering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, belaboring, beleaguering, bewildering, bickering, blundering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, censoring, clamoring, clobbering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doddering, embroidering, empowering, endangering, endeavoring, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, figuring, fingering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, foundering, fracturing, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glowering, grandfathering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, levering, lingering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, maundering, meandering, measuring, minoring, mirroring, mongering, mothering, murdering, murmuring, neighboring, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scouring, severing, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, simmering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spiering, sponsoring, squandering, staggering, structuring, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, towering, transpiring, triggering, uncovering, unwavering, ushering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reflating. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-i-l-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: alerting, altering, finagler, inflater, integral, relating, tanglier, triangle. | |
-2 letters: aligner, atingle, elating, engraft, engrail, fainter, fatling, fearing, felting, finagle, flanger, flaring, flinger, fragile, frigate, gelatin, genital, granite, gratine, inflate, ingraft, ingrate, latrine, leafing, nargile, rafting, ratline, realign, reginal, reliant, retinal, ringlet, tangier, tangler, tearing, tingler, trenail. | |
-3 letters: aiglet, aigret, aliner, angler, antler, argent. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-i-l-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: flattering, refloating. | |
+2 letters: centrifugal, falteringly, farthingale, reinflating, unfaltering. | |
+3 letters: centrifugals, deflagrating, deflagration, farthingales, flatteringly, forestalling, unflattering, waterfowling. | |
+4 letters: centrifugally, deflagrations, fragmentarily, overinflating, proliferating, reformulating, unfalteringly, waterflooding, waterfowlings. | |
+5 letters: defibrillating, flabbergasting, frangibilities, preformulating, refrangibility, unflatteringly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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