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stammering
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stammer |
| Synonyms: | faltering, halting, hesitation, lurch, pause, repetition, splutter, sputtering, stoppage, stumble, stutter, stuttering, wobble |
| Concept: | [Imperfect Speech.] Stammering. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; spoken language |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
inarticulateness; stammering; hesitation; impediment in one's speech; titubancy, traulism; whisper (faint sound); lisp, drawl, tardiloquence; nasal tone, nasal accent; twang; falsetto (want of voice); broken voice, broken accents, broken sentences., brogue; slip of the tongue, lapsus linouae
-verbs
stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer; balbutiate, balbucinate, haw, hum and haw, be unable to put two words together., mumble, mutter; maud, mauder; whisper; mince, lisp; jabber, gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick, speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's words; murder the language, murder the King's (or Queen's) English; mispronounce, missay.
-adjectives
stammering; inarticulate, guttural, nasal; tremulous; affected.
-adverbs
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| Main Entry: | ashamed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | regretting, remorseful |
| Synonyms: | abashed, apologetic, bashful, blushing, chagrined, compunctious, conscience-stricken, contrite, crestfallen, debased, demeaned, discomfited, disconcerted, distraught, distressed, embarrassed, flustered, guilty, hesitant, humble, humbled, humiliated, meek, mortified, muddled, penitent, regretful, reluctant, repentant, shamed, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, sorry, stammering, stuttering, submissive |
| Antonyms: | bold, defiant, immodest, not sorry, shameless, unregretful, unremorseful, unself-conscious |
| 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: | hesitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | waiting; uncertainty |
| Synonyms: | averseness, dawdling, delay, delaying, demurral, doubt, dubiety, equivocation, faltering, fluctuation, fumbling, hemming and hawing, hesitancy, indecision, indecisiveness, indisposition, irresolution, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Notes: | hesitancy is a quality or state, while hesitation is an act |
| Antonyms: | certainty, eagerness, go, perseverance, sureness |
| 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 |
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