Dictionary

halting en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.
   • Her husband spoke to the Indian in halting Sioux, but Horse Ears was wise. He did not answer. 1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, Flame on the Frontier; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 28:
   • his halting speech
   • Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak a halting English. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
   • her halting steps

Forms

Deriveds

halting problem · haltingness · unhalting · haltingly · halting site · nonhalting

Translations (9)

es vacilante (hesitant or broken) · es titubeante (hesitant or broken) · nl onderbreken (hesitant or broken) · mi pāremoremo (hesitant or broken) · nl stoppen (hesitant or broken) · es entrecortado (hesitant or broken) · nl stil houden (hesitant or broken) · bg заекващ (hesitant or broken) · bg колеблив (hesitant or broken)

halting en · NOUN

Meanings

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

Forms

Synonyms

recess · hiatus (stopping, hesitancy) · moratorium

halting en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of halt
   form of halt