halting

Prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.

Adjective

  1. Prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.
    • his halting speech
    • her halting steps
    • Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak a halting English. - 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and...

Forms

more halting most halting

Derived

haltingly haltingness halting problem halting site nonhalting unhalting

Noun

  1. The action of one who halts; a stopping or hesitancy.
    • 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. - 1841, George Mogridge, Thoughts for the thoughtful, by old...

Forms

haltings

Synonyms

hiatus moratorium recess

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of halt