What does hesitantly mean?
Hesitantly means With hesitation..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
With hesitation..
Grigory hesitantly took her in his arms to kiss her, but she held him off, bent supply backwards and shot a frightened glance at the windows. 'They'll see!' 'Let them!' 'I'd be ashamed—'
The sounds from Barb's clarinet began to take the shape of a melody, played quietly at first, hesitantly, with a misblown note here and there.
It approaches irrefusably, hesitantly, terrible as fate, the great task and question: how shall the earth as a whole be managed? (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1885)
A woman asked, hesitantly: “Is he the one who … self-immolated?”
The teenager stared down the barrel of Petr's gun for a few seconds, then asked hesitantly, “What kind of questions?” “Something's going on,” Petr began. The pimply deadlingshrugged. “This is Brno, there's always something going on.”
Use hesitantly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hesitantly means With hesitation..
Common synonyms include reluctantly, hesitatingly.
Possible antonyms include unhesitatingly.
Grigory hesitantly took her in his arms to kiss her, but she held him off, bent supply backwards and shot a frightened glance at the windows. 'They'll see!' 'Let them!' 'I'd be ashamed—'
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