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Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.
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Meaning of "vacillating" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VACILLATING

vacillating  [ˈvæsɪˌleɪtɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VACILLATING

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

WHAT DOES VACILLATING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of vacillating in the English dictionary

The definition of vacillating in the dictionary is inclined to waver; indecisive.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VACILLATING


armour-plating
ˌɑːməˈpleɪtɪŋ
calculating
ˈkælkjʊˌleɪtɪŋ
dating
ˈdeɪtɪŋ
electroplating
ɪˈlektrəʊˌpleɪtɪŋ
escalating
ˈɛskəˌleɪtɪŋ
expostulating
ɪkˈspɒstjʊˌleɪtɪŋ
isolating
ˈaɪsəˌleɪtɪŋ
nickel-plating
ˈnɪkəlˈpleɪtɪŋ
noncirculating
nɒnˈsɜːkjʊˌleɪtɪŋ
operating
ˈɒpəreɪtɪŋ
oscillating
ˈɒsɪleɪtɪŋ
plating
ˈpleɪtɪŋ
rating
ˈreɪtɪŋ
scintillating
ˈsɪntɪˌleɪtɪŋ
slating
ˈsleɪtɪŋ
stimulating
ˈstɪmjʊˌleɪtɪŋ
titillating
ˈtɪtɪleɪtɪŋ
uncalculating
ʌnˈkælkjʊˌleɪtɪŋ
undulating
ˈʌndjʊˌleɪtɪŋ
zinc-plating
ˌzɪŋkˈpleɪtɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VACILLATING

vaccinator
vaccinatory
vaccine
vaccinee
vaccinia
vaccinial
vaccinium
Vacherin
vacillant
vacillate
vacillatingly
vacillation
vacillator
vacillatory
vacua
vacuate
vacuation
vacuist
vacuities
vacuity

WORDS THAT END LIKE VACILLATING

accounting
beating
boating
cheating
coating
communicating
decorating
devastating
eating
fascinating
floating
frustrating
heating
humiliating
incorporating
overheating
repeating
rotating
seating
skating
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Synonyms and antonyms of vacillating in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «VACILLATING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «vacillating» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of vacillating

Translation of «vacillating» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VACILLATING

Find out the translation of vacillating to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of vacillating from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «vacillating» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

摇摆
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

vacilante
570 millions of speakers

English

vacillating
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दुविधा में पड़ा हुआ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متذبذب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

колеблющихся
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vacilante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অস্থির
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vacillant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kekosongan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schwankend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

揺れる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

동요
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngguyu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lúc lắc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தடுமாறுகிறவராக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विसराळू
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bocalayan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vacillante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niezdecydowany
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

коливних
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ezitant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αμφιταλαντεύεται
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wankel moedig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vacklande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vacillating
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of vacillating

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VACILLATING»

The term «vacillating» is regularly used and occupies the 58.603 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VACILLATING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about vacillating

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2 QUOTES WITH «VACILLATING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word vacillating.
1
Franz Grillparzer
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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Hjalmar Schacht
Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VACILLATING»

Discover the use of vacillating in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to vacillating and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Melodrama: The Vacillating Fortunes in the Life of Verity ...
Pamela Glyn. THE VACILLATING FORTUNES IN THE LIFE OF VERITY LOVEGOOD or TRUE LOVE ON THE BOG (A Melodrama in one Act) By Pamela Glyn Copyright © 2011 Published by Lulu First edition 2011 This.
Pamela Glyn
2
The Noun in Biblical Armenian: Origin and Word-Formation - ...
1.2. IE s-stem ................................... .. 1.3. IE compounds ........................... .. Table of nouns vacillating between 0- and a-st. .............................................. .. 2. Nouns vacillating between 0and i-stem ................................. .. 2.1. IE o-stem/root noun .
Birgit Anette Olsen, 1999
3
What is the Experience of Vacillating Between Self-love and ...
[Abstract] The question, "What is the experience of vacillating between self-love and self-hate?" was explored.
Severson, Judith H., 1995
4
Disorders of Personality: Introducing a DSM/ICD Spectrum ...
act self-assured, decisive, and competent; before one can get accustomed to these behaviors, vacillating resentfuls may revert to being dependently clinging and childlike. Tantrums are quite common, frequently moving to the foreground, and ...
Theodore Millon, 2011
5
Credit and Money
3 The Freely-vacillating Currency If the government practises restraint in the issuance of additional amounts of its credit or fiat money and if public opinion assumes that the inflationary policy will be stopped altogether in a not-toodistant future, ...
Dave DeKeesh
6
Silencing Identity Through Communication: Situated ...
Donahue Talk Show, Vacillating Form, and Dueling Identities In reviewing Carbaugh's works (1988a, 1988/1989, 1996), I will briefly discuss identities being constituted in communication practices, a vacillating form, and dueling identities.
Makoto Saito, 2007
7
Religion and Politics in Russia: A Reader
According to the data of research from 1989–90, up to two-thirds of the respondents categorized themselves as more or less religious: among urban Tatars, 34.1 percent regarded themselves as religious, and 30.4 percent as vacillating ...
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, 2009
8
Situating Selves: The Communication of Social Identities in ...
of identity together, and exploring the motives for selecting one rather than the others, showed how identities gain a sharp sense through contrast within this vacillating form. In chapters 7 and 8, we found a similar, yet complex version of the ...
Donal A. Carbaugh, 1996
9
Underlying Representations
Table 5.6 Frequencies of non-vacillating forms in the Italian Web Item Hits % amici 3,140,000 99.68% *amichi 9,970 0.32% total 3,149,970 *amice 12,700 0.6 % amiche 2,120,000 99.4% total 2,132,700 greci 2,060,000 96.27% *grechi 79,800 ...
Martin Krämer, 2012
10
Advances in Learning Classifier Systems: 4th International ...
6.3 Emergent Behaviour in MAXCS For all the experiments with selfish reward and 0 < Λcm < 1 : there is an agent – called the “vacillating” agent (shown as agents 1 and 4 in Tables 6and 5)– that is always taking the wrong decision: it ...
Pier L. Lanzi, Wolfgang Stolzmann, Stewart W. Wilson, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VACILLATING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term vacillating is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Reality, nuclear deal with Iran and why I vacillate.
I have been vacillating greatly on supporting the agreement. My support is for two basic reasons; sanctions were not preventing Iran from expanding its influence ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
2
Samajwadi Party, Trinamool Congress keep government guessing …
Even as the Samajwadi Party and Trinamool Congress continued keeping both the treasury and the opposition benches guessing by their vacillating stands, ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jul 15»
3
Slack buying, higher arrivals rob aroma off cardamom
The individual auction average last week was vacillating between ₹630 and ₹660 a kg whereas it was in the range of ₹725 and ₹810 a kg in the same period ... «Hindu Business Line, Jul 15»
4
Transportation Index Vacillating
After increasing in March, the Freight Transportation Services Index fell 1.8 percent in April, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of ... «Go By Truck News, Jun 15»
5
Chief Justice John Roberts 'Comes Out'
I'm talking about the Chief's transition from one of the U.S. Supreme Court's stalwart conservative Justices to one of its most centrist and vacillating. Although he's ... «Above the Law, May 15»
6
Nick Clegg hints at dropping opposition to EU referendum
Mr Clegg, who has served as deputy prime minister for five years, accused the Conservatives of vacillating over the UK's EU role. “First, they said they didn't ... «Irish Times, May 15»
7
Will the Supremes Make Marriage Equality the Law of the Land?
Listen to Slate's show about Europe's burgeoning immigration crisis, the Koch brothers' vacillating views on Gov. Scott Walker, and the Supreme Court's gay ... «Slate Magazine, Apr 15»
8
Between Round-ups and Regularisation: Morocco's Vacillating (...)
The Moroccan government should move forward with the migration policy it began implementing in September 2013 and not backtrack, stated FIDH and the ... «FIDH, Mar 15»
9
MDC-T vacillates over by-elections
THE opposition MDC-T yesterday continued vacillating on whether to boycott or participate in the forthcoming 14 parliamentary by-elections with party leader ... «NewsDay, Mar 15»
10
HILLARY SMITH: Prep baseball season kicks off with vacillating
If baseball fans enjoyed the weekend weather outside with a spring training game on the radio, that'll be the last of it for a while. With the appearance of the prep ... «nwitimes.com, Mar 15»

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