vacillate

The word “vacillate” has 3 syllables: va-cil-late

It's pronounced as /ˈvæsɪˌleɪt/


What is synonym and antonym for vacillate?

In the thesaurus, “vacillate” has 52 synonyms and 9 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for vacillate along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for vacillate

Antonyms for vacillate

  • advance
  • budge
  • continue
  • decide
  • hold
  • persist
  • remain
  • stay
  • stir

Example Sentences

  • He tends to vacillate between different opinions during discussions.
  • The committee members often vacillate on key decisions, causing delays.
  • Some people vacillate between career options before finding their passion.
  • It's not uncommon for individuals to vacillate when faced with difficult choices.
  • The market can vacillate based on various economic factors and trends.

On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to vacillate, such as: advance, alternate, back down, balance, be indecisive, be irresolute, budge.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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waffle

  • beat about the bush
  • beat around the bush
  • blin
  • blintz
  • blintze
  • bypass
  • cavil
  • change
  • circumvent
  • crepe
  • dodge
  • duck
  • elude
  • equivocate
  • eschew
  • evade
  • flapjack
  • flip-flop
  • fudge
  • griddle cake
  • hedge
  • hem and haw
  • hotcake
  • oatcake
  • pancake
  • pussyfoot
  • quibble
  • shake
  • shirk
  • shun
  • sidestep
  • skirt
  • slapjack
  • straddle
  • straddle the fence
  • tergiversate
  • vacillate
  • weasel
  • wheat cake
  • yo-yo

quaver

take exception

  • affirm
  • alter
  • altercate
  • animadvert
  • argue
  • assert
  • asseverate
  • attest
  • avouch
  • avow
  • back-talk
  • balk
  • battle
  • be against
  • be at loggerheads
  • be displeased
  • be displeased by
  • be distinguished from
  • be in a huff
  • be insulted
  • be off the beaten path
  • be offended by
  • be put off by
  • be rubbed wrong way
  • be unlike
  • be vexed
  • bear a grudge
  • bear no resemblance
  • beef
  • begrudge
  • bellyache
  • bicker
  • bitch
  • blame
  • blast
  • bleat
  • brawl
  • break with
  • buck
  • bump
  • carp
  • caterwaul
  • cavil
  • censure
  • challenge
  • charge
  • clash
  • clash with
  • collide
  • combat
  • complain
  • conflict
  • conflict with
  • constate
  • contend
  • contest
  • contradict
  • contrast
  • crab
  • criticize
  • croak
  • cross
  • cross swords
  • cry out
  • dare
  • debate
  • declare
  • decry
  • defy
  • demonstrate
  • demur
  • denounce
  • depart from
  • deprecate
  • deviate from
  • differ
  • digress
  • disagree
  • disapprove
  • disavow
  • discommend
  • discountenance
  • disesteem
  • dislike
  • disobey
  • disparage
  • dispute
  • dissent
  • divaricate from
  • diverge
  • diversify
  • divide
  • doubt
  • embroil
  • except
  • expostulate
  • fall out
  • feel bitter
  • feel sore
  • feud
  • fight
  • find fault
  • frown
  • frown at
  • frown upon
  • fuss
  • gag
  • get nose out of joint
  • get tough with
  • go one-on-one
  • gripe
  • grizzle
  • grouch
  • grouse
  • growl
  • grudge
  • grumble
  • grump
  • harbor a grudge
  • hassle
  • have hard feelings
  • have it out
  • have words
  • hem and haw
  • hesitate
  • holler
  • howl
  • insist
  • inveigh
  • inveigh against
  • jar with
  • keen
  • kick
  • lack resemblance
  • lock horns
  • maintain
  • make a stink
  • maunder
  • mix it up
  • mix it up with
  • moan
  • modify
  • murmur
  • mutter
  • nag
  • not conform
  • not look like
  • object
  • object to
  • oppose
  • pause
  • pick at
  • predicate
  • profess
  • protest
  • pussyfoot
  • put up a fight
  • qualify
  • quarrel
  • quibble
  • rail
  • rain
  • raise objection
  • rant
  • rave
  • rebel
  • recriminate
  • refuse
  • remonstrate
  • repine
  • resist
  • reverse
  • revolt
  • row
  • run counter to
  • say no
  • scold
  • scrap
  • scream
  • scruple
  • set to
  • show contrast
  • shy
  • sing a different tune
  • sound off
  • spar
  • spat
  • spurn
  • squabble
  • squawk
  • squeal
  • stage a walkout
  • stand apart
  • stick
  • stickle
  • storm
  • strain
  • strive
  • struggle
  • take amiss
  • take as an insult
  • take issue
  • take offense
  • take on
  • take umbrage
  • tangle
  • testify
  • thumbs-down
  • turn
  • vacillate
  • vary
  • wail
  • wait and see
  • war
  • waver
  • whimper
  • whine
  • whinge
  • withstand
  • wrangle
  • yammer
  • yaup
  • yawp
  • yowl

yo-yo

  • about-face
  • act reciprocally
  • airhead
  • alter
  • alternate
  • any way the wind blows
  • arbitrary
  • ass
  • assort
  • be indecisive
  • be irresolute
  • be unable to decide
  • be undecided
  • be unlike
  • beast
  • bend
  • berk
  • birdbrain
  • blockhead
  • blow hot and cold
  • blowing hot and cold
  • bonehead
  • boob
  • booby
  • boor
  • born fool
  • bottom out
  • bubblehead
  • bubbleheaded
  • budge
  • buffoon
  • buoyant
  • butt
  • bypass
  • cad
  • capricious
  • careen
  • careless
  • cavil
  • change
  • change gears
  • change mind
  • changeable
  • changeful
  • character
  • charley
  • charlie
  • cheating
  • chowderhead
  • chucklehead
  • chump
  • churl
  • circumvent
  • clod
  • clodpate
  • clodpole
  • clodpoll
  • clot
  • clown
  • cluck
  • clunk
  • codger
  • come and go
  • contrary
  • convert
  • cook
  • coquettish
  • crackbrain
  • crackpot
  • crank
  • creep
  • cretin
  • crotchety
  • cuckoo
  • cuddie
  • cuddy
  • cur
  • daredevil
  • deadhead
  • deliberate
  • depart
  • deviate
  • dial back
  • differ
  • digress
  • dilly-dally
  • dim bulb
  • dimwit
  • ding-a-ling
  • ding-dong
  • dingbat
  • dip
  • dipstick
  • disagree
  • dislocate
  • displace
  • dissent
  • disturb
  • dither
  • divaricate
  • diverge
  • diversify
  • divide
  • do up
  • dodge
  • dodo
  • dolt
  • donkey
  • doofus
  • dope
  • dork
  • double-crossing
  • drift
  • duck
  • dullard
  • dum-dum
  • dumb cluck
  • dumbbell
  • dumbhead
  • dumdum
  • dummkopf
  • dummy
  • dunce
  • dunderhead
  • dupe
  • ebb and flow
  • effervescent
  • elastic
  • elude
  • equivocate
  • erratic
  • eschew
  • evade
  • every which way
  • exchange
  • expansive
  • faithless
  • falter
  • fanciful
  • fathead
  • fault
  • featherbrain
  • featherhead
  • fence-straddle
  • fickle
  • fill in for
  • fitful
  • flaky
  • flexible
  • flicker
  • flighty
  • flip
  • flip-flop
  • fluctuate
  • fluctuating
  • fluid
  • flutter
  • follow
  • follow in turn
  • fool
  • freakish
  • frivolous
  • fudge
  • gaga
  • gander
  • gawk
  • gay
  • git
  • go up and down
  • golem
  • goof
  • goon
  • goose
  • half-wit
  • halt
  • hammerhead
  • hardhead
  • hedge
  • heel
  • helter-skelter
  • hem and haw
  • hesitate
  • hover
  • humorsome
  • idiot
  • iffy
  • ignoramus
  • imbecile
  • impulsive
  • incline
  • inconstant
  • inflect
  • interchange
  • intersperse
  • irregular
  • irrepressible
  • irresolute
  • jackass
  • jerk
  • jughead
  • kinky
  • know-nothing
  • knucklehead
  • kook
  • lamebrain
  • laughingstock
  • lean
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • loggerhead
  • loon
  • loony
  • loser
  • lubricious
  • lummox
  • lump
  • lunatic
  • lunkhead
  • lurch
  • mad
  • madman
  • madwoman
  • meathead
  • mercurial
  • mobile
  • mockery
  • modify
  • mome
  • monkey
  • moody
  • mooncalf
  • moron
  • movable
  • move
  • move around
  • move over
  • mug
  • mutable
  • mutate
  • mutt
  • natural
  • nimrod
  • nincompoop
  • ninny
  • ninnyhammer
  • nit
  • nitwit
  • noddy
  • noodle
  • notional
  • numbskull
  • numskull
  • nut
  • nutcase
  • oaf
  • odd
  • oddball
  • oscillate
  • palter
  • part
  • pause
  • pea brain
  • pendulate
  • permutate
  • picky
  • pinhead
  • prat
  • protean
  • pulsate
  • punchy
  • pussyfoot
  • pussyfoot around
  • quibble
  • quicksilver
  • quirky
  • quiver
  • range
  • ratbag
  • rearrange
  • recalibrate
  • reel
  • relieve
  • relocate
  • remove
  • replace
  • reposition
  • resilient
  • rise and fall
  • rock
  • roll
  • rotate
  • run hot and cold
  • sap
  • saphead
  • scatterbrain
  • schlemiel
  • schlub
  • schlump
  • schnook
  • screwball
  • seesaw
  • separate
  • shake
  • shift
  • shifting
  • shifty
  • shilly-shally
  • ship
  • shirk
  • shlemiel
  • shlub
  • shuffle
  • shun
  • sidestep
  • simp
  • simpleton
  • skirt
  • skunk
  • slippery
  • snake
  • sneaking
  • spasmodic
  • spirited
  • sprightly
  • stagger
  • stinker
  • stir
  • stock
  • straddle
  • stupe
  • stupid
  • stupid person
  • substitute
  • swap places
  • sway
  • swerve
  • swing
  • switch over
  • tack
  • take turns
  • teeter
  • temperamental
  • tergiversate
  • thickhead
  • ticklish
  • totter
  • transfer
  • transform
  • transmogrify
  • transpose
  • tremble
  • trim
  • turkey
  • turn
  • turn around
  • turn the corner
  • turn the tables
  • two-timing
  • uncertain
  • undulate
  • unequable
  • unfaithful
  • unpredictable
  • unreasonable
  • unsettled
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • untrue
  • up and down
  • up-and-down
  • vacillate
  • vacillating
  • vagarious
  • variable
  • variegate
  • vary
  • veer
  • vibrate
  • villain
  • volatile
  • waffle
  • waffling
  • wave
  • waver
  • wavering
  • wayward
  • weasel
  • weave
  • weirdo
  • whiffle
  • whimsical
  • witling
  • wobble
  • woodenhead
  • yahoo
  • zany

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