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hesitatory

Meaning of "hesitatory" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF HESITATORY

ˈhɛzɪˌteɪtərɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HESITATORY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hesitatory is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HESITATORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hesitatory in the English dictionary

The definition of hesitatory in the dictionary is hesitating, hesitative.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HESITATORY

adjudicatory · anticipatory · celebratory · circulatory · compensatory · congratulatory · cunctatory · dedicatory · dictatory · facilitatory · gestatory · gyratory · natatory · oscillatory · participatory · regulatory · revelatory · self-regulatory · translatory · ventilatory

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HESITATORY

hesitance · hesitancy · hesitant · hesitantly · hesitate · hesitater · hesitatingly · hesitation · hesitative · hesitator · Hesperia · Hesperian · Hesperidean · Hesperides · Hesperidian · hesperidin · hesperidium

WORDS THAT END LIKE HESITATORY

ambulatory · anti-inflammatory · conservatory · defamatory · derogatory · directory · discriminatory · explanatory · exploratory · inflammatory · laboratory · lavatory · mandatory · migratory · obligatory · observatory · predatory · preparatory · purgatory · research laboratory · respiratory

Synonyms and antonyms of hesitatory in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hesitatory» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HESITATORY

Find out the translation of hesitatory to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of hesitatory from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hesitatory» in English.
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hesitatory
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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hesitatory
570 millions of speakers
en

English

hesitatory
510 millions of speakers
hi

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hesitatory
380 millions of speakers
ar

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hesitatory
280 millions of speakers
ru

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hesitatory
278 millions of speakers
pt

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hesitatory
270 millions of speakers
bn

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hesitatory
260 millions of speakers
fr

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hesitatory
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Ragu-ragu
190 millions of speakers
de

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hesitatory
180 millions of speakers
ja

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hesitatory
130 millions of speakers
ko

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hesitatory
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Hesitatory
85 millions of speakers
vi

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hesitatory
80 millions of speakers
ta

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hesitatory
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

अनिश्चित
75 millions of speakers
tr

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hesitatory
70 millions of speakers
it

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hesitatory
65 millions of speakers
pl

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hesitatory
50 millions of speakers
uk

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hesitatory
40 millions of speakers
ro

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hesitatory
30 millions of speakers
el

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hesitatory
15 millions of speakers
af

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hesitatory
14 millions of speakers
sv

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hesitatory
10 millions of speakers
no

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hesitatory
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hesitatory

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HESITATORY»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HESITATORY»

Discover the use of hesitatory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hesitatory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Greek Literature: Greek literature in the Hellenistic period
Such hesitatory interludes can achieve great power, since they can directly portray the actual process of thought in arriving at its goal. Pindar's use of such embarrassment is extraordinarily effective in defining his moral and esthetic ends .
Gregory Nagy, 2001
2
Âh-âyîtaw Isi Ê-kî-kiskêyihtahkik Maskihkiy/They Knew Both ...
... granddaughter was gone'; not restricted to animate referents] ay-api- VAI sit, be seated [reduplicated] aya IPC ah, well [hesitatory; cf. ayahk, ayi] aya PR the one [ weak demonstrative, often enclitic; e.g., aya; ayi] ayahk IPC ah, well [hesitatory; ...
H. C. Wolfart, 2000
3
Miscellaneous Essays on Pindar
1.30, P. 2.49, P. 1.41) and well illustrates the use of appeals to piety in transitional or hesitatory priamels. It will be seen that such passages are entirely too sophisticated and rhetorical to be taken in a straightforward religious sense.
‎1895
4
Digest of Neurology and Psychiatry
Among well-known hesitatory interjections are 'er,' 'ah,' 'ha,''um,' and their combinations. Being an emotional verbal act, an interjection represents a disturbance in an otherwise meaningful context. Psychoanalysis views such disturbances in ...
‎1951
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
One who hesitates. He was that apparent contradiction in terms, a bold hesitator — in the language of the hunting field, a "daring tanker. " Contemporary Bee, LIV. 620. hesitatory (hez'- or hes'i-ta-to-ri), a. [< hesitate + -ory.] Hesitating. [Rare.] ...
‎1906
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The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
Voice thin, creaky, querulous — hesitatory, and as couldn't be troubled to speak. Carlyle, The Century, XXTV. 22. hesp (hesp), «. 1. A dialectal variant of hasp. — 2 . The length of two hanks of linen thread. E. H. Knight. Hesper (hes'per), n.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1906
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The Annual Survey of Psychoanalysis: V. 1-10; 1950-59
Among well-known hesitatory interjections are "er," "ah," "ha," "um," and their combinations. Being an emotional verbal act, an interjection represents a disturbance in an otherwise meaningful context. Psychoanalysis views such disturbances ...
John Frosch, 1954
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the ...
His being suspicious, dubious, cautelons, and not soon determined, but hesitatory at unusual occurrences in his office, made him pass for a person timidous, and of a fickle, irresolute temper. Roger North, Examen, p. 596. Voice thin, creaky ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
9
The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
Among well-known hesitatory interjections are 'er', 'ah', 'ha', and 'urn', and combinations of these. There is little semantic difference between these interjections and 'well' as used in, 'Well, I'm not quite sure'. The cognitive content of the ...
Dorian Feigenbaum, Bertram David Lewin, Gregory Zilboorg, 1951
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The History of England, During the Reigns of K. William, Q. ...
... him to do, he wanted no Resolution or Courage to perform it. In the mean time, his being suspicious, dub10U$> Caute' lous, and not soon determined, but hesitatory at unusual Occurrences in his Office, made him pass for a Person ...
James Ralph, 1744
REFERENCE
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