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Definition of irresolute in English: irresoluteadjective ɪˈrɛzəluːtɪ(r)ˈrɛzəˌlut Showing or feeling hesitancy; uncertain. she stood irresolute outside his door Example sentencesExamples - He was following me no longer; he stood irresolute.
- That's just what voters need - another referendum passed down by bureaucrats who are too irresolute to do their jobs.
- Gimmicks like that were the stuff of the weak and the irresolute.
- They were prone to be shaky and irresolute, he explained - and might even betray the nation's servicemen.
- Affirmative and ambiguous, we are invited to critically examine our own fear of and fascination with the mysterious and irresolute.
- People staggered before the abyss, unsteady, irresolute.
- His delivery is purposefully nervous, artfully irresolute.
- Much of it boils down to little more than a group of disgruntled notions sloshing around in irresolute minds.
- I think a bit of Europe will be a very good thing for the present, or as long as I'm in this irresolute mood.
- Inactive and irresolute, she has been adrift for months now, personally and professionally.
- The play calls for Elizabeth to gradually learn the rules, reaching the same irresolute state as the adults who surround her.
- It is also a shame that Daldry felt he had to finish his film with a ‘feel-good’ conclusion that is at odds with a generally irresolute tone.
- As it is, disparity maintains an irresolute space in which one concept can neither overrule the other nor resolve the destruction waged.
- His partner Doyle, an Anglicised Irishman, laments his fellow-countrymen's irresolute dreaming and victim culture.
- But this year, for some reason, I was very irresolute about it.
- In the myth-making of the Middle East, it allowed the West to be portrayed as weak and irresolute.
- The man of sanguine temperament builds high hopes where the timid despair, and the irresolute are lost in doubt.
- Branding is a sign, not of the dynamic accumulation of capital, but of weakness and irresolute leadership.
- After previous outrages we had been irresolute and appeared unwilling to defend ourselves.
- Yet the more nuanced language of Edmund Stoiber gave the impression that he was irresolute and wavering.
Synonyms indecisive, hesitant, tentative, nervous, weak vacillating, equivocating, dithering, wavering, teetering, fluctuating, faltering, shilly-shallying ambivalent, divided, in two minds, in a dilemma, in a quandary, torn doubtful, in doubt, full of doubt, unsure, uncertain undecided, uncommitted, unresolved, undetermined informal iffy, blowing hot and cold, sitting on the fence
Derivatives adverb ɪˈrɛzəluːtliɪ(r)ˈrɛzəˌlutli Therefore, instead of a final dispensation, the story of a monster at the limit of the tellable concludes irresolutely, even incoherently. Example sentencesExamples - Then, she walked slowly, irresolutely up the stairway.
- I found myself turning irresolutely from map to reality and back again.
- A group of six students all dressed similarly, in red shirts bearing the face of Che Guevara, were standing irresolutely at the front of the door.
- Armed with pencil and paper, I stood there irresolutely, protesting.
noun ɪˈrɛzəluːtnəsɪ(r)ˈrɛzəˌlutnəs Many think that voting out an incumbent president in wartime shows national irresoluteness, even cowardice. Example sentencesExamples - What inflames the Arab street is not American strength but the perception of American irresoluteness.
- Resoluteness is not morally better than irresoluteness.
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin irresolutus 'not loosened', or from in-1 'not' + resolute. Definition of irresolute in US English: irresoluteadjectiveɪ(r)ˈrɛzəˌluti(r)ˈrezəˌlo͞ot Showing or feeling hesitancy; uncertain. she stood irresolute outside his door Example sentencesExamples - Inactive and irresolute, she has been adrift for months now, personally and professionally.
- Affirmative and ambiguous, we are invited to critically examine our own fear of and fascination with the mysterious and irresolute.
- His delivery is purposefully nervous, artfully irresolute.
- People staggered before the abyss, unsteady, irresolute.
- Branding is a sign, not of the dynamic accumulation of capital, but of weakness and irresolute leadership.
- In the myth-making of the Middle East, it allowed the West to be portrayed as weak and irresolute.
- The man of sanguine temperament builds high hopes where the timid despair, and the irresolute are lost in doubt.
- They were prone to be shaky and irresolute, he explained - and might even betray the nation's servicemen.
- But this year, for some reason, I was very irresolute about it.
- His partner Doyle, an Anglicised Irishman, laments his fellow-countrymen's irresolute dreaming and victim culture.
- The play calls for Elizabeth to gradually learn the rules, reaching the same irresolute state as the adults who surround her.
- He was following me no longer; he stood irresolute.
- Much of it boils down to little more than a group of disgruntled notions sloshing around in irresolute minds.
- As it is, disparity maintains an irresolute space in which one concept can neither overrule the other nor resolve the destruction waged.
- It is also a shame that Daldry felt he had to finish his film with a ‘feel-good’ conclusion that is at odds with a generally irresolute tone.
- I think a bit of Europe will be a very good thing for the present, or as long as I'm in this irresolute mood.
- Gimmicks like that were the stuff of the weak and the irresolute.
- That's just what voters need - another referendum passed down by bureaucrats who are too irresolute to do their jobs.
- After previous outrages we had been irresolute and appeared unwilling to defend ourselves.
- Yet the more nuanced language of Edmund Stoiber gave the impression that he was irresolute and wavering.
Synonyms indecisive, hesitant, tentative, nervous, weak
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin irresolutus ‘not loosened’, or from in- ‘not’ + resolute. |