Synonyms of the word

faltering

• v. present participle of falter.
• n. hesitancy.

falter

• n. unsteadiness.
• v. To waver or be unsteady.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
• v. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
• v. To stumble.
• v. (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
• v. To hesitate in purpose or action.
• v. To cleanse or sift, as barley.

hesitation

• n. An act of hesitating.
• n. doubt; vacillation.
• n. A faltering in speech; stammering.

pause

• v. (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
• v. (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
• v. (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To consider; to reflect.
• n. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
• n. A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
• n. Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
• n. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation…
• n. A break or paragraph in writing.
• n. Alternative spelling of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).
• n. (as direct object) take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate.

unsteady

• adj. Not held firmly in position, physically unstable.
• adj. Noted for lack of regularity or uniformity.
• adj. Inconstant in purpose, or volatile in behavior.
• v. To render unsteady, removing balance.

waver

• v. (intransitive) To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
• v. (intransitive) To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
• v. (intransitive) To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
• v. (intransitive) To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
• v. (intransitive) To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
• n. An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
• n. Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
• n. Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
• n. A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.