Hesitant

Adjective

 * 1) Tending to hesitate, wait, or proceed with caution or reservation.
 * I am hesitant to recommend him as a manager because he has a short temper.

Related terms

 * hesitance
 * hesitancy
 * hesitate
 * hesitation
 * hesitative

Adverbs for Hesitant
capriciously; captiously; uncertainly; reluctantly; doubtfully; stammeringly; change-ably; indecisively; timidly; weakly; irresolutely; deliberately; falteringly; waveringly; feebly; tormentingly; infirmly; unsteadily; tremulously; significantly; fearfully.

Thesaurus
afraid, agnostic, ambiguous, ambivalent, averse, backward, bashful, boggling, canny, capricious, careful, cautious, chancy, changeable, circumspect, deliberate, demurring, dicey, diffident, discreet, dithering, doubting, equivocal, erratic, faltering, fickle, fluctuating, gingerly, guarded, halting, heedful, hesitating, incalculable, indecisive, indefinite, indemonstrable, indisposed, irresolute, jibbing, judicious, leaving out nothing, loath, mindful, modest, noncommittal, of two minds, on guard, overlooking no possibility, pause, pawky, politic, polysemous, prudent, qualmish, regardful, reluctant, safe, scrupling, scrupulous, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shy, skeptical, slow to act, squeamish, stammering, sticking, stickling, straining, stuttering, tentative, thorough, timid, touch-and-go, unaccountable, unadventurous, uncertain, uncommunicative, unconfirmable, unconvinced, undaring, undecided, undivinable, uneager, unenterprising, unforeseeable, unpersuaded, unprecipitate, unpredictable, unprovable, unresolved, unsettled, unsure, unverifiable, unwilling, vacillating, vacillatory, variable, wavering, whimsical, wobbly

Etymology
From stem of haesitans:, present participle of haesito:

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 猶豫不決, 犹豫不决, 下不了決心, 下不了决心 (xiàbuliǎo juéxīn)
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Greek: διστακτικός
 * Hebrew: הססן
 * Icelandic: hikandi, efablandinn, tvístígandi, óákveðinn, óráðinn, á báðum áttum
 * Russian: неуверен

Anagrams

 * staineth