Waver

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To move unsteadily back and forth. See Synonyms at swing.
  • verb-intransitive. To exhibit irresolution or indecision; vacillate: wavered over buying a house. See Synonyms at hesitate.
  • verb-intransitive. To become unsteady or unsure; falter: His resolve began to waver.
  • verb-intransitive. To tremble or quaver in sound, as of the voice or a musical note.
  • verb-intransitive. To flicker or glimmer, as light.
  • n. The act of wavering.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
  • v. To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
  • v. To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
  • v. To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
  • v. To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
  • v. To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
  • n. An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
  • n. Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
  • n. Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
  • n. A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
  • n. A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
  • n. A darkwaver; a fan of darkwave music.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.
  • verb-intransitive. To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate.
  • n. A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To move up and down or to and fro; wave; float; flutter; be tossed or rocked about; sway.
  • To quiver; flicker; glimmer; glance.
  • To falter; fail; reel; totter.
  • To be undetermined or irresolute; fluctuate; vacillate.
  • Synonyms and Vacillate. See fluctuate.
  • Hesitate, etc. See scruple.
  • To cause to wave or move to and fro; set in waving motion; brandish.
  • To demur or scruple about; hesitate at; shirk.
  • n. One who or that which waves; specifically, in printing, an inking-roller; an apparatus which distributes ink on the table or on other rollers, but not on the form of types: so called from its vibratory movement.
  • n. A sapling or timberling left standing in a fallen wood.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of moving back and forth
  • v. be unsure or weak
  • v. move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
  • n. someone who communicates by waving
  • v. give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
  • v. pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
  • v. move back and forth very rapidly
  • v. sway to and fro
  • n. the act of pausing uncertainly
  • v. move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
  • Verb Form
    wavered    wavering    wavers   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    motility    movement    motion    move    hesitate    waffle    swing    communicator    voice    sound   
    Cross Reference
    flicker    falter    totter    waiver   
    Hyponym
    dwell on    linger    linger over    oscillate    vibrate    hover    boggle    vacillate    falter   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    reel    swing    flutter    vacillate    fluctuate    wave    oscillation    fluctuation   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Laver    aver    baver    braver    caver    craver    disfavor    engraver    favor    flavor   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    quaver    hesitancy    irresolution    dovo    fluctuation    steely