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vacillating 音标拼音: [v'æsəl ,etɪŋ] a. 犹豫的;优柔寡断的 犹豫的;优柔寡断的 vacillating adj 1: uncertain in purpose or action [ synonym: { vacillant}, { vacillating}, { wavering}] Vacillate \ Vac" il* late\ ( v[ a^] s"[ i^] l* l[= a] t), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Vacillated} ( v[ a^] s"[ i^] l* l[= a]` t[ e^] d); p. pr. & vb. n. { Vacillating}.] [ L. vacillare, vacillatum; cf. Skr. va[~ n] c.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. [ 1913 Webster] [ A spheroid] is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. -- Paley. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: See { Fluctuate}. [ 1913 Webster]
Vacillating \ Vac" il* la` ting\, a. Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. -- Tennyson. -- { Vac" il* la` ting* ly}, adv. [ 1913 Webster] 98 Moby Thesaurus words for " vacillating": adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, capricious, changeable, changeful, coquettish, desultory, deviable, dizzy, eccentric, erratic, faddish, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flirtatious, flitting, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, freakish, giddy, harmonic, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, libratory, light, mazy, mercurial, moody, nutational, oscillating, oscillatory, pendular, pendulating, pendulous, periodic, quicksilver, rambling, resonant, restless, roving, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shilly- shally, shilly- shallying, shuffling, skittish, spasmodic, spineless, toying, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillatory, vagrant, variable, versatile, vibratile, vibrating, vibratory, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy- washy, wobbly
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