halting
English
Adjective
halting (comparative more halting, superlative most halting)
- Prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.
- his halting speech
- her halting steps
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, OCLC 1029993343:
- Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak a halting English.
Derived terms
- haltingly
- haltingness
- halting problem
- halting site
Translations
hesitant or broken
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Verb
halting
- present participle of halt
Noun
halting (plural haltings)
- The action of one who halts; a stopping or hesitancy.
- 1841, Mogridge, George, Thoughts for the thoughtful, by old Humphrey, page 167:
- But alas ! alas ! the faintings, the haltings, the back-slidings of Christians, are enough to make us tremble while we rejoice in the hope set before us.
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Synonyms
- (stopping, hesitancy): hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause
Anagrams
- Althing, alnight, lathing, thingal