Vocabulary
Hesitation
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the action of pausing before saying or doing something.
Urdu meaning
ہچکچاہٹ، لڑکھڑاہٹ، ہکلاہٹ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- This hesitation, in the author`sview, stems from a combination of administrative fatigue, fear of professional scrutiny and an overly narrow reading of the law.
- It is time society collectively shed its hesitation.
- What I witnessed throughout was a spirit that defies defeat: men always ready to stand their ground, to fight to the last man, and to execute orders without hesitation even at the cost of their own lives.
- But if India continues to choose disengagement and obstruct progress, it should reconsider its stance without hesitation.
- To overcome the fearful hesitation that might have persisted for the rest of his life, he returned to Lahore on the same flight, with the same airline, in the same seat only four months after the crash.
Synonyms
pausing, delay, hanging back, waiting, shilly-shallying, dithering, stalling, temporizing
Antonyms
resolution, certainty
Curator example
“she answered without hesitation”
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