Rhymes with hesitant
hes·i·tant
H h Three-syllable rhymes
- evident — Plain or obvious; clearly seen or understood.
- excellent — Used to indicate approval or pleasure.
- exigent — Pressing ; demanding.
- expectant — Having or showing an excited feeling that something is about to happen, especially something pleasant and interesting.
- fetishist — belief in or use of fetishes.
- hesitate — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
- innocent — free from moral wrong; without sin; pure: innocent children.
- measurement — the act of measuring.
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- militant — vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause: militant reformers.
- negligent — guilty of or characterized by neglect, as of duty: negligent officials.
- precedent — Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- president — (often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
- prevalent — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- regiment — Military. a unit of ground forces, consisting of two or more battalions or battle groups, a headquarters unit, and certain supporting units.
- relevance — the condition of being relevant, or connected with the matter at hand: Some traditional institutions of the media lack relevance in this digital age.
- relevant — bearing upon or connected with the matter in hand; pertinent: a relevant remark.
- reluctant — unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
- residence — the place, especially the house, in which a person lives or resides; dwelling place; home: Their residence is in New York City.
- resident — a person who resides in a place.
- residents — a person who resides in a place.
- resistant — resisting.
- reticent — disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved.
- sediment — the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs.
- settlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- skeleton — Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body.
- testament — Law. a will, especially one that relates to the disposition of one's personal property. will2 (def 8).
- celibate — Someone who is celibate does not marry or have sex, because of their religious beliefs.
- definite — If something such as a decision or an arrangement is definite, it is firm and clear, and unlikely to be changed.
- elegant — Pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner.
- element — A part or aspect of something abstract, especially one that is essential or characteristic.
- elephant — A heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal.
- evidence — The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
- evidenced — Simple past tense and past participle of evidence.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- benevolent — If you describe a person in authority as benevolent, you mean that they are kind and fair.
- effeminate — (of a man or boy) having traits, tastes, habits, etc., traditionally considered feminine, as softness or delicacy.
- embellishment — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesitantly — hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined.
- indelicate — offensive to a sense of generally accepted propriety, modesty, or decency; improper, unrefined, or coarse: indelicate language.
- irrelevant — not relevant; not applicable or pertinent: His lectures often stray to interesting but irrelevant subjects.
- replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
Two-syllable rhymes
- distant — far off or apart in space; not near at hand; remote or removed (often followed by from): a distant place; a town three miles distant from here.
- instant — an infinitesimal or very short space of time; a moment: They arrived not an instant too soon.
- peasant — a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
- pleasant — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.
- present — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.