Crossword-Solution: HESITANT 8 letters, 44 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Hesitant a. Not prompt in deciding or acting; hesitating.
Hesitant a. Unready in speech.

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HESITANT anagram THEAINTS, THESAINT

We have 44 clues for the answer “HESITANT”

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Wondering "Should I? Should I not?" 1 answer
Having cold feet 1 answer
vacillatory 2 answers
Reluctant to act 2 answers
Reluctant to commit 2 answers
uneager 4 answers
Waffling 5 answers
Not certain 6 answers
Loath 12 answers
hesitating 12 answers
Disinclined 21 answers
balky 23 answers
Tentative 27 answers
Improbable 28 answers
Halting 31 answers
COMING late 33 answers
Apprehensive 40 answers
Afraid 45 answers
Hangdog 48 answers
Moving around 48 answers
wavering 52 answers
Doubting ___. 54 answers
Diffident 55 answers
unresolved 57 answers
Arguable 60 answers
Bashful 61 answers
Reluctant 63 answers
chary 68 answers
roaming 72 answers
Powerless 72 answers
Preoccupied 74 answers
Volatile 76 answers
frivolous 76 answers
Vacillating 77 answers
fidgety 78 answers
unreasonable 81 answers
insecure 82 answers
indecisive 82 answers
Vagabond 83 answers
secretive 85 answers
Absent 88 answers
Undecided 89 answers
cloudy 89 answers
Uncertain 100 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HESITANT (5)

They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008
Until now I felt very hesitant about giving my consent to this marriage, but from now on I will do everything His royal Majesty, my father, commands me." Tirant heard the infanta's words, and he was the happiest man in the world.
The White Knight: Tirant lo Blanc Joanot Martorell and Marti Johan d'Galba 1995
Especially when you are facing an audience of grown people and children together, you will find that the latter are very hesitant about initiating their own expression of humor.
Stories to Tell to Children Sara Cone Bryant 1996
Luke Dawson, lender of money on mortgages, owner of Northern cut-over land, was a hesitant man in unpressed soft gray clothes, with bulging eyes in a milky face.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 2006
Here our guards seemed in doubt as to just what to do; those in front halted and stood hesitant, and it seemed to me that as they gazed below down the stone stair their eyes held a certain shrinking terror.
Under the Andes Rex Stout 1996

Quotes with HESITANT (3)

There are many different types of kisses. There’s a passionate kiss of farewell — like the kind Rhett gave Scarlett when he went off to war. The kiss of I-can’t-really-be-with-you-but-I-want-to-be — like with Superman and Lois Lane. There’s the first kiss — one that is gentle and hesitant, warm and vulnerable. And then there’s the kiss of possession — which was how Ren kissed me now. It went beyond passion, beyond desire. His kiss was full of longing, need, and love, like all…
Colleen Houck Tiger's Quest
make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man…
Jon Krakauer Into the Wild
I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
John Eldredge Wild At Heart
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 14 times in crossword archives (1992–2019).