Vocabulary
Hesitation
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the action of pausing before saying or doing something.
Urdu meaning
ہچکچاہٹ، لڑکھڑاہٹ، ہکلاہٹ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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If wealthy nations continue to fund weapons without hesitation while delaying climate obligations, they are making a choice.
Dawn Editorials —
Climate reckoning
— 2026-01-03
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For families who worked up the courage to send their daughters to school after years of hesitation, it marks the undoing of hard-won social progress.North Waziristan has repeatedly been promised a `post-conflict` future.
Dawn Editorials —
Schools under attack
— 2025-12-17
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Today, it wears the mask of digital hesitation.
Dawn Editorials —
The silent risk
— 2025-12-13
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And hesitation has become, in our era, a strategic flaw.The most dangerous assumption a company can make is that survival is guaranteed because yesterday`s methods once worked.
Dawn Editorials —
The silent risk
— 2025-12-13
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The only obstacle now is political hesitation and an inherited mindset of control.GB`s mountains hold the minerals that could propel Pakistan into a high-tech future, yet its governance is reminiscent of a colonial past.
Dawn Editorials —
GB`s rare earth potential
— 2025-11-19
Synonyms
pausing, delay, hanging back, waiting, shilly-shallying, dithering, stalling, temporizing
Antonyms
resolution, certainty
Curator example
“she answered without hesitation”
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