dithering
Meaning of dithering
verb, gerund or present participle
- be indecisive.
I can't bear people who dither
he was dithering about the election date
- add white noise to (a digital recording) to reduce distortion of low-amplitude signals.
mid 17th century (in the dialect sense ‘tremble, quiver’): variant of dialect didder ; related to dodder1.
Information about dithering
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Hyphenation of dithering
dither-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- dithering is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
dithering synonyms
Meaning pause in indecision before saying or doing something:
Meaning lose strength or momentum:
Meaning be undecided between two opinions or courses of action:
Meaning move or balance unsteadily; sway back and forth:
Meaning waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive:
Meaning move or swing back and forth in a regular rhythm:
Meaning rise and fall irregularly in number or amount:
Meaning delay or postpone action; put off doing something:
Meaning be late or slow; loiter:
Meaning (of a motor vehicle or its engine) stop running, typically because of an overload on the engine:
Meaning avoid making a decision or committing oneself in order to gain time:
Meaning waste time; be slow:
Meaning act or move slowly:
Meaning talk foolishly; babble:
Meaning be uncertain as to which course of action to choose:
Anagrams of dithering
Words that rhyme with dithering
Ring, ring, Baring, Dearing, Spearing, Waring, Wearing, Zearing, abearing, afearing, affearing, afterhearing, anearing, appearing, ashlaring, backbearing, baring, bearing, beggaring, besmearing, bevaring, bewaring, blaring, blearing, burglaring, calendaring, caring, cellaring, charing, cheddaring, cheeseparing, childbearing, chivaring, clearing, coappearing, collaring, comparing, compearing, daring, dearing, declaring, dellaring, desugaring, disappearing, dogearing, drearing, earing, emparing, endearing, ensearing
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