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单词 irresolution
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Definition of irresolution in English:

irresolution

noun ɪˌrɛzəˈl(j)uːʃnˌɪrɛzəˈl(j)uːʃnɪ(r)ˌrɛzəˈluʃ(ə)n
mass noun
  • Hesitancy; uncertainty.

    a moment of irresolution
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Himmler's irresolution and vacillation was also his enemy.
    • Despite the nobility of its conception, this odyssey will end in irresolution and equivocation - as indeed it must.
    • The modern mind attempts to cleanse itself, to ‘scour away’ what it believes to be painful impurities, to think its way out of irresolution.
    • Such is Kerry's reputation for irresolution that even when he does talk tough, America's adversaries don't take him seriously.
    • In this vacuum of uncertainty and irresolution, business and investment decisions have been delayed, put on ice or cancelled altogether.
    Synonyms
    indecisiveness, indecision, irresoluteness, lack of resolution, hesitancy, hesitation, tentativeness
    ambivalence, doubt, doubtfulness, unsureness, uncertainty
    vacillation, equivocation, oscillation, wavering, teetering, fluctuation, faltering, second thoughts
    delay, hanging back, waiting, shilly-shallying, dithering, stalling, temporizing, temporization
    British havering, humming and hawing
    Scottish swithering
    informal dilly-dallying, blowing hot and cold, sitting on the fence
    rare dubiety, incertitude, cunctation

Rhymes

ablution, absolution, allocution, attribution, circumlocution, circumvolution, Confucian, constitution, contribution, convolution, counter-revolution, destitution, dilution, diminution, distribution, electrocution, elocution, evolution, execution, institution, interlocution, Lilliputian, locution, perlocution, persecution, pollution, prosecution, prostitution, restitution, retribution, Rosicrucian, solution, substitution, volution

Definition of irresolution in US English:

irresolution

nounɪ(r)ˌrɛzəˈluʃ(ə)ni(r)ˌrezəˈlo͞oSH(ə)n
  • Hesitancy; uncertainty.

    a moment of irresolution
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Himmler's irresolution and vacillation was also his enemy.
    • Despite the nobility of its conception, this odyssey will end in irresolution and equivocation - as indeed it must.
    • The modern mind attempts to cleanse itself, to ‘scour away’ what it believes to be painful impurities, to think its way out of irresolution.
    • In this vacuum of uncertainty and irresolution, business and investment decisions have been delayed, put on ice or cancelled altogether.
    • Such is Kerry's reputation for irresolution that even when he does talk tough, America's adversaries don't take him seriously.
    Synonyms
    indecisiveness, indecision, irresoluteness, lack of resolution, hesitancy, hesitation, tentativeness
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