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1. Uncertain in purpose or action
   - vacillant, vacillating

1. Indecision in speech or action
   - hesitation, vacillation
    
2. The quality of being unsteady and subject to changes
   "he kept a record of price waverings";
   - fluctuation

1. Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
   - hesitate, waffle [N. Amer, informal], baulk [Brit], balk
    
2. Be unsure or weak
   - falter
    
3. Move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
   - falter
    
4. Move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
   "the line on the monitor wavered";
   - fluctuate, vacillate
    
5. Move back and forth very rapidly
   "the candle wavered";
   - flicker, flitter, flutter, quiver
    
6. Sway from side to side
   - weave
    
7. Give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
   - quaver

Derived forms: waverings

See also: irresolute

Type of: indecision, indecisiveness, irregularity, irresolution, move, move back and forth, sound, sway, swing, unregularity, vocalise [Brit], vocalize, voice

Encyclopedia: Waver, Netherlands