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faltering 音标拼音: [f'ɔltɚɪŋ] a. 犹豫的,蹒跚的,支吾的 犹豫的,蹒跚的,支吾的 faltering adj 1: unsteady in speech or action n 1: the act of pausing uncertainly; " there was a hesitation in his speech" [ synonym: { hesitation}, { waver}, { falter}, { faltering}] Falter \ Fal" ter\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Faltered}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Faltering}.] [ OE. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault. See { Fault}, v. & n.] 1. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. [ 1913 Webster] With faltering speech and visage incomposed. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. " He found his legs falter." -- Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To hesitate in purpose or action. [ 1913 Webster] Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion' s arms. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought. [ 1913 Webster] Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters. -- I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster]
Faltering \ Fal" ter* ing\, a. Hesitating; trembling. " With faltering speech." -- Milton. -- n. Falter; halting; hesitation. -- { Fal" ter* ing* ly}, adv. [ 1913 Webster] 90 Moby Thesaurus words for " faltering": ambling, balbutient, bashful, boggling, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, demurring, diffident, easy, flagging, foot- dragging, gentle, gradual, halting, hesitant, hesitating, hobbled, hobbling, idle, indecisive, indolent, irresolute, jibbing, languid, languorous, lazy, leisurely, limping, lukewarm, lumbering, moderate, modest, poking, poky, qualmish, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, scrupling, scrupulous, shilly- shallying, shrinking, shuffling, shy, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow- crawling, slow- foot, slow- going, slow- legged, slow- moving, slow- paced, slow- poky, slow- running, slow- sailing, slow- stepped, sluggish, snail- paced, snaillike, squeamish, staggering, stammering, sticking, stickling, straining, strolling, stumbling, stuttering, tentative, timid, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, uncertain, unhurried, vacillatory, waddling, wavering, wobbly
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