dither

Other forms of dither

plural

dithers·

past tense

ditherred·

present participle

ditherring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dither

What does dither mean?

dither means "act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dither?

dither has 2 syllables: dit-her. The stress falls on "dit". In IPA it is /ˈdɪðɚ/.

What is another word for dither?

Close synonyms include flap, pother, pother, fuss, tizzy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dither a common word?

dither is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.