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VACILLATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vacillating mean? 

VACILLATING (adjective)
  The adjective VACILLATING has 1 sense:

1. uncertain in purpose or actionplay

  Familiarity information: VACILLATING used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VACILLATING (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Uncertain in purpose or action

Synonyms:

vacillant; vacillating; wavering

Similar:

irresolute (uncertain how to act or proceed)


 Context examples 


The poor woman was very vacillating in her repentance.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Keep in mind that Mercury is a wild child at the start and end of the retrograde—more so than in the middle of his phase—so that’s reason enough to keep your distance from this vacillating planet.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Very well; I hope you feel the content you express: at any rate, your good sense will tell you that it is too soon yet to yield to the vacillating fears of Lot's wife.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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