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wavering
To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
Quick reference
Word Facts
- Word length
- 8
- Starts with
- W
- Ends with
- G
- Contains
- AVERIN
- Scrabble score
- 15
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
Meaning
Definitions
verb
To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
“Flowers wavered in the breeze.”
To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
“His voice wavered when the reporter brought up the controversial topic.”
To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
“Despite all the terrible things that happened to her, she never wavered from her beliefs.”
noun
A state of fluctuation or indecision.
“the waverings of politicians, trying to please everybody”
adjective
Fluctuating; being in doubt; undetermined; indecisive; uncertain; unsteady.
In context
Example Sentences
Flowers wavered in the breeze.
His voice wavered when the reporter brought up the controversial topic.
Despite all the terrible things that happened to her, she never wavered from her beliefs.
the waverings of politicians, trying to please everybody