Spanish-English translations for vacilante

• halting
  Given the historical background, we could ask why the first step was somewhat halting. Dado el contexto histórico, podríamos preguntarnos por qué el primer paso fue algo tan vacilante.
  his halting speech
  her halting steps
• hesitant
  Your answer seems rather hesitant to me. Su respuesta me parece un poco vacilante.
  The first hesitant steps have been taken. Los primeros pasos vacilantes ya se han dado.
  Only a few hands were somewhat hesitantly raised. Sólo se alzaron unas pocas manos algo vacilantes.
• indecisive
  They were all being very indecisive about what to wear to the party.
  The outcome of the race was so indecisive.
• wishy-washy
  In some cases they have been forced to give way to wishy-washy, colourless and insipid compromises. En algunos casos, se han tenido que sustituir por compromisos vacilantes, anodinos y sin interés.
  Not wanting to be pressed for details, public relations gave a wishy-washy answer.
  The wishy-washy orange juice served by the cafeteria not only failed to be sweet; it was barely orange.

Related words

• vacilar