vacillateverb [ I ]
uk/ˈvæs.ɪ.leɪt/us/ˈvæs.ə.leɪt/disapprovingto be uncertain what to do, or to change often between two opinions:
Her mood vacillated between hope and despair.
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Doubt & ambivalence
- ambivalent
- askance
- be in two minds idiom
- blow hot and cold idiom
- chary
- hem
- hem and haw idiom
- hum
- hum and haw idiom
- indecision
- indecisive
- jury
- shades of grey idiom
- shilly-shally
- sit on the fence idiom
- straddle
- tentative
- unclear
- wobble
- wobbly
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vacillation
noun [ C or U ] uk/ˌvæs.ɪˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌvæs.əˈleɪ.ʃən/