English-Thai Dictionary

irresolution

N ความลังเลใจ  kwam-lang-le-jai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IRRESOLUTION

n.Want of resolution; want of decision in purpose; a fluctuation of mind, as in doubt, or between hope and fear.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

IRRESOLUTION

Ir *res `o *lu "tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. irrésolution.]

 

Defn: Want of resolution; want of decision in purpose; a fluctuation of mind, as in doubt, or between hope and fear; irresoluteness; indecision; vacillation. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness. Addison.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

irresolution

ir res o lu tion |i (r )ˌrezəˈlo͞oSHən ɪrezəˈluːʃn | ▶noun hesitancy; uncertainty: a moment of irresolution.

 

Oxford Dictionary

irresolution

ir |reso |lu ¦tion |ˌɪrɛzəˈl (j )uːʃn, ɪˌrɛzəˈl (j )uːʃn | ▶noun [ mass noun ] hesitancy; uncertainty: a moment of irresolution.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

irresolution

irresolution noun ‘I'll go, ’ she said after several minutes of irresolution: indecisiveness, indecision, irresoluteness, lack of resolution, hesitancy, hesitation, tentativeness; ambivalence, doubt, doubtfulness, unsureness, uncertainty; vacillation, equivocation, oscillation, wavering, teetering, fluctuation, faltering, second thoughts; delay, hanging back, waiting, shilly-shallying, dithering, stalling, temporizing, temporization; Brit. havering, humming and hawing; Scottish swithering; informal dilly-dallying, blowing hot and cold, sitting on the fence; rare dubiety, incertitude, cunctation. ANTONYMS decisiveness.

 

French Dictionary

irrésolution

irrésolution n. f. nom féminin Indécision. SYNONYME hésitation ; incertitude .