halting

English

Adjective

halting (comparative more halting, superlative most halting)

1. Prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.

   his halting speech

   her halting steps

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak a halting English.

Derived terms

• haltingly
• haltingness
• halting problem
• halting site

 

Translations

hesitant or broken

• Bulgarian: колеблив (bg) (kolebliv), заекващ (bg) (zaekvašt)
• Dutch: stoppen (nl), onderbreken (nl), stil houden
• Maori: pāremoremo (of speech)
• Spanish: titubeante, vacilante (es), entrecortado (es)

Verb

halting

1. present participle and gerund of halt

Noun

halting (plural haltings)

1. The action of one who halts; a stopping or hesitancy.
   • 1841, George Mogridge, Thoughts for the thoughtful, by old Humphrey, page 167:

     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.

Synonyms

• (stopping, hesitancy): hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause

Anagrams

• Althing, alnight, lathing, thingal