| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Falter.[Websters]
2. To be palpitated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have dithered, cowered, wavered or wobbled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be shilly-shallied. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have heaved, hesitated, doddered, tottered or rolled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be unloosed or unshackled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have floated or vibrated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be unfettered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have hovered or oscillated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be deregulated.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb falter.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (falter) | 1. Be unsure or weak; "Their enthusiasm is faltering".[Wordnet]. 2. Move hesitatingly, as if about to give way.[Wordnet]. 3. Walk unsteadily.[Wordnet]. 4. Speak haltingly; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room".[Wordnet]. 5. To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.[Websters]. 6. To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.[Websters]. 7. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.[Websters]. 8. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.[Websters]. 9. To hesitate in purpose or action.[Websters]. 10. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.[Websters]. 11. Base verb from the following inflections: faltering, faltered, falters, falterer, falterers, falteringly and falteredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FALTERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Specialty Definition: falter
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To hesitate, fail or break in the utterance of words; to speak with a broken or trembling utterance; to stammer. His tongue falters. He speaks with a faltering tongue. He falters at the question.. | 2: [Verb] To fail, tremble or yield in exertion; not to be firm and steady. His legs falter.. | 3: [Verb] To fail in the regular exercise of the understanding. We observe idiots to falter.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] unsteadiness. (references) | 2: [Verb] To stammer. (references) | 3: [Verb] To stumble. (references) | 4: [Verb] To waver or be unsteady. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Topics by Level of Interest: falter | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| John Philip Falter | 17 | Falter | 2 | |
| Falter im Wind | 3 | Falter im Wind | 3 | |
| Falter | 2 | John Philip Falter | 17 | |
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