waver

Main Entry:
seesaw [see-saw]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: move back and forth
Synonyms: alternate, fluctuate, rock, sway, teeter, teeter-totter, vacillate, waver
Main Entry: shilly-shally
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: procrastinate
Synonyms: be irresolute, blow hot and cold, dally, dawdle, dodge, fluctuate, halt, hesitate, stall, trifle, vacillate, waver
Main Entry: flitter
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: flutter
Synonyms: dart, flicker, flit, flop, fly, ripple, skim, swoop, waggle, wave, waver, zip
Main Entry: misdoubt
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: doubt
Synonyms: be apprehensive of, be curious, be dubious, be in a quandary, be puzzled, be uncertain, be undetermined, call in question, challenge, demur, disbelieve, discredit, dispute, distrust, fear, fluctuate, give no credence, harbor suspicion, have one's doubts, have qualms, hesitate, imagine, impugn, insinuate, misgive, mistrust, not buy, query, question, read differently, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticize, smell a rat, surmise, suspect, take dim view of, vacillate, waver, wonder, wonder at
Main Entry: refract
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bend
Synonyms: angle, angle away, angle off, arch, bow, buckle, camber, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook*, incline, incurvate, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag
Related Words
Main Entry: doubt
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
abroad, adrift, afraid to say, ambiguous, ancipitous, apocryphal, astray, at a loss, at a nonplus, at fault, at one's wit's end, at sea, casual, changeable, confused, contingent, contingent on, controvertible, debatable, deceptive, dependent on, dependent on circumstances, disputable, distracted, distraught, distrustful of, doubtful, doubting, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, evasive, experimental, fallacious, fallible, false, fine-spun, hard to believe, hypothetical, ignorant, illusive, illusory, in a cloud, in a maze, in a state of uncertainty, in question, in suspense, inconceivable, incredible, incredulous as to, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, jesuitical, lost, mebby-scales, minimifidian, mystic, not to be believed, occasional, open to discussion, open to doubt, open to suspicion, oracular, out of one's reckoning, overrefined, paradoxical, perplexing, pettifogging, plausible, plausive, precarious, problematical, puzzled, questionable, quibbling, shy of, skeptical as to, slippery, sophistical, specious, staggering, subject to, suspect, suspicious, suspicious of, ticklish, unascertained, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unbelieving, uncertain, unconfirmed, uncounted, undecided, undefinable, undefined, undemonstrable, undemonstrated, undeserving of belief, undetermined, unreliable, unsettled, untold, untrustworthy, unworthy of belief, vague
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Recoil.
Category: 3. Motion conjoined with force
Synonyms:
-nouns
recoil; reaction, retroaction; revulsion; bounce, rebound, ricochet; repercussion, recalcitration; kick, contrecoup; springing back; elasticity; reflexion, reflex, reflux; reverberation (resonance); rebuff, repulse; return., ducks and drakes; boomerang; spring, reactionist.
-verbs
recoil, react; spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back; rebound, reverberate, repercuss, recalcitrate; echo, ricochet.
-adjectives
recoiling; refluent, repercussive, recalcitrant, reactionary; retroactive.
-adverbs
on the rebound, on the recoil.
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