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dithery

dithery adjective: unable to think straight; tending to dither.

Adjective

dithery (comparative more dithery, superlative most dithery)

  1. Unable to think straight; tending to dither.
  2. Constantly moving about
  3. Characterized by dithering.
    • It has been a dithery decade for nuclear policy. After the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, several countries began shuttering their reactors and tearing up plans for new ones.December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian

Forms of dithery

comparativemore dithery
superlativemost dithery

Origin of dithery

From dither + -y.

Questions about dithery

What does dithery mean?
Dithery means unable to think straight; tending to dither.
What part of speech is dithery?
Dithery is an adjective.

Words near dithery in the dictionary

  1. dithering
  2. ditheringly
  3. ditherings
  4. dithers
  5. dithersome
  6. dithery
  7. dithiane
  8. dithianes
  9. dithianon
  10. dithiatopazine
  11. dithiazanine

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