Waver

Definitions: Waver

Waver

Noun

1. Someone who communicates by waving.

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

3. The act of moving back and forth.

Verb

1. Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness: "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures.".

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

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

4. Move in an unstable manner.

5. Move back and forth very rapidly, as of a candle.

6. Sway to and fro.

7. Give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency.

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

Date "waver" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Waver

Changeableness

Verb: fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter, shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble, turn and turn about, ring the changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and change about; waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute); oscillate; vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes; alternate; have as man phases as the moon.

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

Tergiversation

Verb: change one's mind, change one's intention, change one's purpose, change one's note; abjure, renounce; withdraw from; (relinquish); waver, vacillate; wheel round, turn round, veer round; turn a pirouette; go over from one side to another, pass from one side to another, change from one side to another, skip from one side to another; go to the rightabout; box the compass, shift one's ground, go upon another tack.

Unbelief Doubt

Demure, stick at, pause, hesitate, scruple; stop to consider, waver.

Crosswords: Waver

Music

• Flag Waver (reference)

• Heat Waver [IMPORT] (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• VS Sassoon VS184C Three Barrel Waver Ion (reference)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All this would have made one, who had known nothing of what was going forward, waver between a very sinister idea and a very simple idea.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "waver": new Waver. Additional references.

Ending with "waver": arm-waver, flag-waver, scroll-waver.

Albanian

ngurroj (boggle, demur, dither, falter, halt, hang, hesitate, linger, pendulate, scruple, vacillate, wabble, wobble), luhatet (fluctuate), lëkundem (dangle, falter, halt, hang, hesitate, jolt, jumble, nod, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, reel, rock, shake, shift, stagger, sway, swing, totter, vacillate, vibrate, wabble, wallow, wamble, wobble), hezitoj (hesitate), dridhem (blink, dither, dodder, flicker, flinch, give a start, pulsate, quake, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, tremble, twiddle, twitch, vibrate, wabble, wince, wobble, writhe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تمايل (bob, flexibility, lopsided, lurch, nod, reel, roll, stagger, sway, swing, teeter, titubation, weave, wobble), ‏تهدج (quaver), ‏تذبذب (balance, fluctuation, gyrate, oscillate, pulsate, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, wave, weave, whiffle, wiggle, wobble), ‏ترنح (beat about the bush, falter, feel groggy, grogginess, halt, limp, lurch, quiver, reel, rock, roll, shake, stagger, stumble, teeter, titubation, totter, walk with a wobble, weave, welter), ‏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, irresolution, pause, perplexity, puzzle over, reticence, reverberate, scruple, shilly shally, sound, stick, stop, stumble, tergiversation, timidity, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, wobble, worry), ‏ارتعاش, ‏إضطرب (flicker, flurry, simmer), ‏إرتعش (be shocked, bicker, flutter, jerk, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle, tremble, twitch, wobble). (various references)

Bulgarian 

трептя (blink, oscillate, throb, tingle, tremble, tremor, vacillate, vibrate, wink), треперя (cower, dither, jitter, judder, niddle-noddle, palpitate, pulsate, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, thrill, tremble, tremor, vibrate), колебая се (balance, boggle, chop, crane, demur, dilly dally, dither, falter, fluctuate, hang back, hesitate, hover, hum and haw, jib, pause, pendulate, scruple, seesaw, shilly shally, teeter, vacillate, vibrate, whiffle, wobble, yo-yo), играя (act, dance, disport oneself, do, enact, lead, perform, play, present, represent, run about, shoot, sport, support, twitch, wanton), двоумя се (hesitate, pendulate, vacillate). (various references)

Chinese 

躊 (hesitate, manner of dancing, pace back and forth, walk around), 搖擺 (wag), 摇摆 (Pendulous, stagger, Staggered, staggering, Swayed, swaying, swing, swinging, Swung, Wag, Wagged, Wagging, Wavered, Wavering, wiggling), 動搖 (be indecisive). (various references)

Czech

váhat (be in a dither, delay, dither, falter, hang back, hesitate, hold back, procrastinate, scruple, shilly shally, stagger, temporize, vacillate), rozmýšlet se, ochabovat, kolísat (falter, fluctuate, oscillate, shake, stagger, sway, vacillate, vary, wobble), kmitat se (flicker), chvìt se (flutter, judder, pulsate, quail, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shudder, tingle, tremble, vibrate). (various references)

Danish

tøve (hesitate). (various references)

Dutch

wiebelen (hesitate), wankelen (hesitate), waggelen (hesitate). (various references)

Esperanto

ŝanceliĝi (hesitate). (various references)

Faeroese

sveiggja (hesitate, rock, swing), ridla (hesitate). (various references)

Farsi 

فتورپیداکردن , متزلزل شدن (Totter), نوسان کردن (Jib, Oscillate, Rock, Vacillate, Vibrate), تردیدپیداکردن , تبصره قانون , دودل بودن (Scruple, Vacillate). (various references)

Finnish

horjua (falter, stagger, totter, vacillate), häilyä (sway, swing), häälyä (hover), epäröidä (be in doubt, be irresolute, be undecided, hesitate). (various references)

French

hésiter. (various references)

Frisian

wifkje (hesitate), skytskoarje (hesitate). (various references)

German

wanken (falter, rock, shake, stagger, sway, teeter, totter, vacillate, wobble), schweben (be pending, be suspended, be undecided, dangle, float, floatation, glide, hang, hang in the balance, hanged, hover, impend, levitate, linger, poise, sail, soar, swing, to breeze, to hover, zoom), schwanken (alternate, dither, fluctuate, hesitate, oscillate, oscillation, pitch, range, reel, rock, roll, seesaw, shake, stagger, sway, swing, teeter, to dither (between), to falter, to fluctuate, to sway, totter, tumble, unsteadiness, vacillate, vacillation, vary, vibrate, wobble). (various references)

Greek 

κυματίζων, κυμαίνομαι (fluctuate, undulate), σείων (shaker), αμφιταλαντεύομαι (blow hot and cold, halt, hesitate), ταλαντεύομαι (dangle, fluctuate, oscillate, seesaw, shilly-sally, sway, swing, teeter, totter, vacillate, wabble, wobble), διστάζω (boggle, demur, dilly dally, doggle, falter, hang back, have second thoughts, hesitate, hesitate about, pause, scruple to, shilly-sally, shrink from). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפקפק (doubt, falter, hesitate, query, suspect, vacillate, wobble), לכשול (fail, faint, fall, stagger, stumble, succumb), להתנועע (move, rock, sway), להתנודד (fluctuate, stagger, sway, teeter, totter, vacillate, vibrate), להסס (boggle, falter, hesitate, hum and haw, vacillate). (various references)

Hungarian

reszket (quake, quiver, shiver, shudder, to dither, to flutter, to judder, to palpitate, to quake, to quiver, to shake in one's shoes, to shiver, to thrill, to tremble, to vacillate, to wabble, to wobble, tremble), habozik (be in two minds, demur, hesitate, jib, linger, to be in two minds about sg, to check, to demur, to dither, to draw back, to falter, to hang back, to hang fire, to hold back, to jib, to linger, to scruple, to shilly-shally, to stagger, to straddle, to vacillate, to wabble, to waver). (various references)

Indonesian

jeri (afraid, be hesitant, frightened), enggan-enggan (hesitate, somewhat reluctant). (various references)

Italian

esitare (boggle, demur, falter, halt, hesitance, hesitate, scruple, shilly shally, wabble, wobble), titubare (hesitate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

やり方が渋い (Aah!, affluence, Ah!, at ease, calm, Dear me!, exclamation of relief or disappointment, flicker, large thing swaying, mildly, mischievous, naughty, Oh dear!, Oh!, reserve, rock, roll, rolling from side to side, room, shake, slow swaying, slowly, softly, stingy ways, swing, swinging, Thank God!, time, tremble, vibrate, wobbling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ゆらゆら (flicker, rock, roll, rolling from side to side, shake, slow swaying, swing, swinging, tremble, vibrate, wobbling). (various references)

Manx

brebbal (kick, push with foot, to boot, twitch). (various references)

Pig Latin

averway

Portuguese

vacilar (boggle, chop, crane, diddle, falter, flinch, fluctuate, hand baggage, hesitate, nidificate, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, quail, quiver, repose, shilly shally, shuffle, stagger, sway, teeter, toddle, totter, tremble, vacillate), hesitar (balance, boggle, doubt, falter, flinch, flour, fluctuate, halt, hesitate, lingerer, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, repose, scruple, shilly shally, teeter). (various references)

Romanian

tremura (cower, dither, falter, flicker, palpitate, quail, quake, quaver, quiver, reel, ripple, rock, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, throb, tremble, vibrate, wobble), pregeta (hesitate, shrink), pâlpâi (Bicker, flare, flicker, glimmer), oscila (dally, dilly dally, dither, hesitate, librate, oscillate, rock, swing, vacillate, vibrate), fluctua (fluctuate, vacillate), ezita (back, boggle, crane, demur, falter, fluctuate, halt, hang, hesitate, hobble, hold back, pause, scruple, shilly shally, stagger, stand off, stand on, sway, vacillate, veer, wobble), cumpãni (balance, consider, dangle, equipoise, hesitate, measure, ponder, rock, weigh), codi (dilly dally, hesitate, vacillate), şovãi (back, boggle, falter, fluctuate, hang back, hesitate, linger, pause, shilly shally, shuffle, spare, stagger, vacillate). (various references)

Russian 

колебаться (be torn between, dilly dally, dither, fluctuate, fluctuating, go seesaw, hand back, hang in the balance, hesitate, hover, nutate, oscillate, oscillated, pendulate, seesaw, shilly shally, shuttling, stumble at, swing, teeter, vacillate, vibrate, wavered, whiffle, whiffled). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

treperiti (quiver, tremble, trill), teturati se (stagger, teeter), kolebati se (dilly dally, dillydally, fluctuate, pause, vacillate). (various references)

Spanish

vacilar (balance, Dicker, dither, flicker, hang back, hesitate, hold back, pause, range, vacillate), titubear (Dicker, dilly dally, falter, hesitate, nutate, shilly shally, stagger, stammer), fluctuar (fluctuate, fluctuation, oscillate, range). (various references)

Swedish

vackla (boggle, dilly dally, falter, fluctuate, haver, hitch, hover, oscillate, pendulate, shilly shally, stagger, sway, teeter, totter, vacillate, wobble). (various references)

Turkish

titremek (dither, dodder, falter, flicker, flutter, jerk, judder, pulsate, pulse, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shimmy, shiver, shudder, thrill, throb, tremble, vibrate, wobble), titreşmek (Bicker, flicker, judder, pulsate, pulse, quiver, tremble, vibrate), tereddüd etmek (balk at, be vague about smth., dither, falter, halt, hesitate, oscillate, pause, pendulate, scruple, seesaw, shilly shally, stagger, stickle, vacillate, vibrate, wobble, yaw), sendelemek (blunder, careen, dodder, falter, halt, lurch, pitch, reel, stagger, stumble, swing, teeter, topple, totter, wobble), sallanmak (be slung from, bear away, dawdle, dilly dally, dodder, flap, flirt, hang about, hang around, hang down, hang on, hover, keep oneself close, loiter, lurch, oscillate, quake, rock, shake, sway, swing, take a swing, teeter, toss, vibrate, waggle, wave, wobble), duraksamak (balk, baulk, come to a stop, dither, falter, halt, hang back, hesitate, hobble, hover, pause, vibrate), bocalamak (be in two minds, falter, flounder, fluctuate, fluster, get confused, halt, oscillate, stagger, teeter, vacillate, wobble). (various references)

Turkmen 

tykyramak, яygrylmak (be shy, shrink). (various references)

Ukranian 

хитатися (niddle-noddle, nod, nutate, oscillate, rock, shake, stagger, swing, titter, wabble, wamble, weave, wobble), колихатися (fluctuate, wave), вагатися (balance, boggle, deliberate, demur, dilly dally, falter, fluctuate, halt, hesitate, hover, oscillate, pause, stagger, vacillate, vibrate, whiffle), вагання (boggle, demur, embarrassment, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, oscillation, poise, wavering), майоріти (fly, wave), податися, дрижати (chatter, didder, dodder, flicker, quake, quiver, shiver, tingle, tremble, wabble, wobble). (various references)

Welsh

gwamalio (behave frivolously), anwadalu (vacillate). (various references)

aestuabat, aestuabit, aestuaverunt, aestuavit, cassa, casso, claudicabat, claudicantem, claudicatis, claudicaverunt, fluctuantem, fluctuantes, fluctuate, fluctuatur, inclino, labaris, labatur, labor, nutabuntur, nutantes, nutaret, trepidabit, trepidabunt, trepidantem, trepidaverunt, trepidentur, unda, varia, variari, varias, variat, variatas, variavit, vario. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "waver": wavered, waverer, waverers, wavering, waveringly, wavers, wavery. (additional references)

Words containing "waver": unwavering, unwaveringly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Waver" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awve, mwave, Nwyvre, swaver, wacer, waer, waner, wavei, waven, wavery, wavit, wavor, wavw, wawer, waxer, whave, wivet, wivex, wivi, wrave. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aver, rave, vera, ware, wave, wear.

-2 letters: are, ave, awe, ear, era, raw, rev, var, vaw, wae, war.

-3 letters: ae, ar, aw, er, re, we.

+1 letter: avower, reavow, waiver, wavers, wavery, wavier, weaver, wharve.

+2 letters: airwave, avowers, dwarves, overawe, oversaw, reavows, reweave, waivers, wavered, waverer, weavers, wharves.

+3 letters: airwaves, driveway, everyway, lawgiver, ovenware, overawed, overawes, overdraw, overwarm, overwary, overweak, overwear, reavowed, reviewal, reweaved, reweaves, walkover, waveform, waverers, wavering, whatever.

+4 letters: drawshave, driveways, farmwives, lawgivers, microwave, ovenwares, overawing, overdrawn, overdraws, overwarms, overwater, overwears, overweary, reavowing, reviewals, reweaving, riverward, shortwave, superwave, vaporware, walkovers, waveforms.

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