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hesitatory

hesitatory adjective: hesitating.

Adjective

hesitatory (comparative more hesitatory, superlative most hesitatory)

  1. hesitating
    • His being suspicious, dubious, cautelous, and not soon determined, but hesitatory at unusual occurrences in his officea. 1734, Roger North, John Moore

Forms of hesitatory

comparativemore hesitatory
superlativemost hesitatory

Origin of hesitatory

From hesitate + -ory.

Questions about hesitatory

What does hesitatory mean?
Hesitatory means hesitating.
What part of speech is hesitatory?
Hesitatory is an adjective.

Words near hesitatory in the dictionary

  1. hesitative
  2. hesitatively
  3. hesitativeness
  4. hesitator
  5. hesitators
  6. hesitatory
  7. Hesket
  8. Hesketh
  9. Hesketh Bank
  10. Hesketh with Becconsall
  11. Heskeths

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