hesitatingly

1. 1.

   with hesitation; in a hesitant manner

   “he finally accepted hesitantly”

   Synonymshesitantly

Questions about hesitatingly

What does hesitatingly mean?

hesitatingly means "with hesitation; in a hesitant manner".

How many syllables are in hesitatingly?

hesitatingly has 5 syllables: he-si-ta-tin-gly. The stress falls on "ta".

What is another word for hesitatingly?

Close synonyms include hesitantly. 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 hesitatingly a common word?

hesitatingly 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.