| Concept: | [Imperfect Speech.] Stammering. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; spoken language |
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-adjectives
stammering; inarticulate, guttural, nasal; tremulous; affected.
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| Main Entry: | broken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stuttering in speech |
| Synonyms: | disjointed, halting, hesitant, hesitating, imperfect, incoherent, mumbled, muttered, stammering, unintelligible, weak |
| Antonyms: | continuous, flowing |
| Main Entry: | halting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hesitant |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bumbling, claudicant, clumsy, doubtful, faltering, gauche, imperfect, indecisive, inept, irresolute, labored, limping, lumbering, maladroit, slow, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, tentative, uncertain, unhandy, vacillating, vacillatory, wavering, wooden |
| Antonyms: | flowing, smooth, unhesitating |
| Main Entry: | inarticulate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unable to speak well |
| Synonyms: | blurred, dumb, faltering, halting, hesitant, hesitating, inaudible, incoherent, incomprehensible, indistinct, maundering, muffled, mumbled, mumbling, mute, obscure, reticent, silent, speechless, stammering, tongue-tied, unclear, unintelligible, unspoken, unuttered, unvocal, unvoiced, vague, voiceless, wordless |
| Antonyms: | articulate, communicative |
| Main Entry: | incoherent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unintelligible |
| Synonyms: | breathless, confused, disconnected, discontinuous, discordant, disjointed, disordered, dumb, faltering, inarticulate, incohesive, incomprehensible, incongruous, inconsistent, indistinct, indistinguishable, irrational, jumbled, maundering, muddled, muffled, mumbling, mute, muttered, puzzling, rambling, stammering, stuttering, tongue-tied, uncommunicative, unconnected, uncoordinated, uneven, unvocal, wandering, wild |
| Antonyms: | coherent, intelligible, understandable |
| Main Entry: | tongue-tied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unable to speak |
| Synonyms: | aghast, amazed, astounded, at a loss for words, bashful, choked up, dazed, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, garbled, inarticulate, mum, mute, shocked, shy, silent, speechless, stammering, uncommunicative, voiceless |
| Concept: | Irresolution. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of volition |
| Synonyms: |
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irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted; undecided, unresolved, undetermined; shilly-shally; fidgety, tremulous; hesitating; off one's balance; at a loss (uncertain)., vacillating; unsteady (changeable); unsteadfast, fickle, without ballast; capricious; volatile, frothy; light, lightsome, lightminded; giddy; fast and loose., weak, feeble-minded, frail; timid, wimpish, wimpy; cowardly; dough-faced [U.S.]; facile; pliant (soft); unable to say "no", easygoing, revocable, reversible.
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| Antonyms: | resolution, obstinacy |
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