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hesitative

hesitative adjective: distinguished by hesitation; hesitating.

Adjective

hesitative (comparative more hesitative, superlative most hesitative)

  1. Distinguished by hesitation; hesitating.

hesitative meaning in Tamil

hesitative in Tamil

தயக்கம் காட்டுகிற

Antonyms of hesitative

Forms of hesitative

comparativemore hesitative
superlativemost hesitative

Origin of hesitative

From hesitate + -ive.

Words formed from hesitative

Questions about hesitative

What does hesitative mean?
Hesitative means distinguished by hesitation; hesitating.
What is hesitative in Tamil?
Hesitative in Tamil is தயக்கம் காட்டுகிற. See Hesitative meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hesitative?
Hesitative is an adjective.

Words near hesitative in the dictionary

  1. hesitation marks
  2. hesitation wound
  3. hesitation wounds
  4. hesitational
  5. hesitations
  6. hesitative
  7. hesitatively
  8. hesitativeness
  9. hesitator
  10. hesitators
  11. hesitatory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hesitative (page history and authors); hesitative (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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