Waver

Quick meaning: Waver is a verb meaning To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.

Meaning

To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.

More Meanings

1. To move without purpose or a specified destination; to roam, to wander.
2. To sway back and forth, as if about to fall; to reel, to stagger, to totter.
3. To begin to weaken or show signs of weakening in resolve; to falter, to flinch, to give way.
4. To feel or show doubt or indecision; to be indecisive between choices; to vacillate.
5. Of a body part such as an eye or hand, or the voice: to become unsteady; to shake, to tremble.
6. Of light, shadow, or a partly obscured thing: to flicker, to glimmer, to quiver.
7. Chiefly of a quality or thing: to change, to fluctuate, to vary.

Example Sentences

Flowers wavered in the breeze.

[B]y the red and dusky light of the torches, he could discern a figure wavering and struggling as it hung suspended above the heads of the multitude.

The byrdes fliyng and wauoring in the ayer, in the ſtede of houſes haue neſtes to reſt them in. But the ſonne of man ſo is deſtitute of all ſuccours of this worlde, that he hath no place to laye his head in.

Thus many thinges commyng together, partly by chaunce ⁊ partly by purpoſe, cauſed at length, not common people onely, whiche wauer with the wynde, but wyſe men alſo ⁊ ſome lordes, to marke the matter and muſe thee vpon: […]

Word Forms

• wavers
• wavering
• wavered
• waverest
• waveredst
• wavereth

Synonyms for waver

Depending on context, synonyms include waverer, falter, flutter, quiver, quaver, flitter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quaver, falter, faltering, hesitation, flutter, hesitate.

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