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irresolute adjective [ ɪˈrɛzəluːt ]

• showing or feeling hesitancy; uncertain.
• "she stood irresolute outside his door"
Similar: indecisive, hesitant, tentative, nervous, weak, vacillating, equivocating, dithering, wavering, teetering, fluctuating, faltering, shilly-shallying, ambivalent, divided, in two minds, in a dilemma, in a quandary, torn, doubtful, in doubt, full of doubt, unsure, uncertain, undecided, uncommitted, unresolved, undetermined, iffy, blowing hot and cold, sitting on the fence,
Opposite: decisive,
Origin: late 16th century: from Latin irresolutus ‘not loosened’, or from in-1 ‘not’ + resolute.


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