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vacillative

vacillative adjective: tending to vacillate.

Adjective

vacillative (comparative more vacillative, superlative most vacillative)

  1. (rare) Tending to vacillate.

Forms of vacillative

comparativemore vacillative
superlativemost vacillative

Origin of vacillative

From vacillate + -ive.

Questions about vacillative

What does vacillative mean?
Vacillative means tending to vacillate.
What part of speech is vacillative?
Vacillative is an adjective.

Words near vacillative in the dictionary

  1. vacillating
  2. vacillatingly
  3. vacillatings
  4. vacillation
  5. vacillations
  6. vacillative
  7. vacillator
  8. vacillators
  9. vacillatory
  10. vacinee
  11. vacinity

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