FALTERING • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Faltering

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/fˈɔltərɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Falter v. t. To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. (Prov. Eng.)

Falter v. t. To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner. "And here he faltered forth his last farewell." "Mde me most happy, faltering "I am thine.""

Falter v. i. (past & past part. faltered; pres. part. faltering)

To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. "With faltering speech and visage incomposed."

To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. "He found his legs falter."

To hesitate in purpose or action. "Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms."

To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought. "Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters."

noun

Faltering n. Falter; halting; hesitation.

adjective

Faltering adj. Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech."

See images of 'Faltering'

Etymology of 'Faltering'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Faltering" Quotes from Famous Books

... master passion. The man who would make himself felt on this bustling planet, who would make a breach in the compact conservatism of our civilization, must play all his guns on one point. A wavering aim, a faltering purpose, has no place in the twentieth century. "Mental shiftlessness" is the cause of many a failure. The world is full of unsuccessful men who spend their lives letting empty ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... so meanly of us, my lord," said Edith, with the generous burst of feeling which woman so often evinces, and which becomes her so well, her voice faltering through eagerness, and her brow colouring with the noble warmth which dictated her language—"Can you think so meanly of your friends, as that they would permit such considerations to interfere with their sheltering ...

— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... with such a low, faltering voice! I could not trust myself to speak again. A stern sense of duty toward Julia kept me silent; and we moved on, ...

— The Doctor's Dilemma • Hesba Stretton

... Pub 3.0 and the U.S. Army's 525-5 Pamphlet reflect and exploit operational rapidity and simultaneity. Yet, progress in these operational directions may be in danger of faltering if only old Cold War yardsticks are used to make future force investments and to direct studies about future force structure and associated infrastructure. As in any transition period, innovation must be joined by a willingness ...

— Shock and Awe - Achieving Rapid Dominance • Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade

... in which both disappointment and anger were expressed, presently announced to me the failure of her embassy. Finding that she did not speak, I asked her, in a faltering voice, whether or ...

— Evelina • Fanny Burney

More quotes...