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irresolute
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Latin irresolutus , from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + resolutus (see resolute ). Related: Irresolutely .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. uncertain how to act or proceed; "the committee was timid and mediocre and irresolute" [ant: resolute ] lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly; "stood irresolute waiting for some inspiration" [syn: hesitant , hesitating ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At a loss, Amiss stood there irresolute . ▪ He was old and somewhat irresolute and indecisive. ▪ She turned away from the door, stood irresolute outside the door of her own cabin. ▪ The anticipation drained from her and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 undecided or unsure how to act 2 indecisive or lacking in resolution
Usage examples of irresolute.
One of them, seated at the desk, was elderly, grey-haired, drably clad, drooping and physically frail, irresolute and in definably unworldly of aspect.
Then he spent a few minutes proving that an automorphic resonance field has a semi-infinite number of irresolute prime ideals.
During the entire incident his shouts and curses were heard, as if through an enveloping uproar of such sounds of rage and fury as I had never heard from the throat of man or brutel "For a moment only I stood irresolute, then throwing down my gun I ran forward to my friend's assistance.
Poised to fight, yet waiting for the Byzantines to make the first move, they appeared irresolute and uncertain.
Even when he took it from his mother's drawer without asking, her chidings were feeble and irresolute.
I endeavoured to fix my whole thoughts to the study of those subtle reasonings which I had hitherto so imperfectly conned: but my mind was jarring, irresolute, bewildered, confused.
His own voice sounded discomfortingly plaintive and small to him, and alarmingly irresolute, but it reached her.
What halted her (and only for a space of seconds) was her own reflection, milky and irresolute, in the statue's chrome steel.
But the generous inclusiveness of King's casts of characters, the attentiveness he lavishes on their predictable reactions, the canonization of their mundane observances, the oversimplified karmic particularity of their fates, his often overly patient charting of their irresolute and unremarkable courses.
Morning found puddles crusted with thin shattery ice, portending a deeper cold, only to melt again when the capricious wind blew from the south and an irresolute sun decided to press its authority.