unhesitating

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adjective

Not hesitating; with no hesitation.

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Meanings

adjectiveunhesitating (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot hesitating; with no hesitation.
    1 more example

    The present writer was once asked to name what he considered to be "the most typically English railway approach to a town": a somewhat tall order, especially as such matters will always be, in the last resort, of individual opinion. But the unhesitating answer to this question (which has not been altered after many years of extended travel throughout England) was "Sudbury, in Suffolk."

    1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 705

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivecharacterized by quickness and firmness

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishhesitating
  9. Englishunhesitating

From un- + hesitating.

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Translations

Finnish epäröimätön
  • epäröimätönnot hesitating
Cite this entry
APA

unhesitating. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhesitating

MLA

“unhesitating.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhesitating. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unhesitating,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhesitating.

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