waver

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
2. To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
3. To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
4. To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
5. To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
6. To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.

Noun

1. An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
2. Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
3. Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
4. A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
5. A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.

Concepten

wankelen

aarzelen

waggelen

wiebelen

zwichten

weifelen

bibberen

trillen

flakkeren

lillen

schommelen

schoorvoeten

dubben

beven

schromen

😨

flikkeren

variëren

fluctueren

flitsen

wapperen

weifeling

wiegen

🪨

wijken

wuiven

👋

zwaaien

zwaaier

wuiver

oscilleren

schudden

slingeren

huiveren

twijfelen

Synoniemen

hesitate

vacillate

falter

sway

wobble

fluctuate

stagger

swing

flicker

flutter

tremble

quiver

shake

oscillate

totter

quaver

shiver

rock

🪨

waffle

🧇

be uncertain

dither

be irresolute

change

wince

irresolute

vary

move

doubt

reel

hesitation

flitter

roll

undulate

shift

palpitate

boggle

vibrate

wabble

faltering

weave

halt

hang back

work

run

be undecided

hover

careen

hum and haw

operate

flap

shilly shally

shilly-shally

stir

dilly-dally

teeter

flounder

wafter

wave

👋

waverer

weaken

whiffle

wobbling

be insecure

be puzzled

be touched

be transferred

be unsteady

feel awkward

go astray

move about

move to and fro

shake with fear

be unsure

vascilation

slow swaying

become loose

be perplexed

be influenced

be fickle

be shaky

be infirm

be unstable

rock to and fro

dilly dally

be in two minds

be of two minds

be indecisive

waffler

didder

scruple to

averse

doggle

beat around the bush

be reluctant

budge

changeable

complacent

confident

dangle

demur

destabilize

equivocate

feel shy

fibrillate

flick

flinch

get cold feet

go

go past

gutter

indecision

in doubt

influenced

irresolution

judder

loose

luff

lurch

muddle

path

🛣️

pause

pitch

pound

💷

quake

reluctant

riffle

rustle

sad

☹️

scruple

seesaw

shaker

shillyshally

shimmy

stutter

suspect

swinging

tarry

tergiversate

transferred

twinkle

uncertainty

undecided

undermined

unsteady

vacillating

vacillation

vibration

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈweɪ.və(ɹ)/

Etymologie (Engels)

From Middle English waveren, from Old Norse vafra (“to flicker”), akin to Old English wǣfre (“restless, wavering”). Related to wave.