Irresolute means Undecided or unsure how to act. This page lists 10 example sentences from real texts, plus synonyms like unstable.
Irresolute in a sentence
Irresolute meaning
- Undecided or unsure how to act.
- Indecisive or lacking in resolution.
Synonyms of Irresolute
Available corpus examples
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Hiromi sat irresolute at the voting booth, rereading the propositions without feeling convinced either way.
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Herbie remained irresolute about moving to another country, torn between adventure and the comfort of home.
Source: Tatoeba #13631331 by rul · CC BY 2.0 FR
There was such earnestness, such despair, in her manner that her words arrested me, and I stood irresolute before the door.
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In reality however, most of them were too prudent or irresolute to attempt joining the Bogd Khan regime.
The result is a shallow, boring and totally irresolute that crawls at a snail’s pace.
So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful for impotency.
In one of the messages James left behind, he said he had decided on this action alone, to demonstrate that he was no "irresolute ass who could do nothing of himself".
Consequentially, the weak, the timid and the irresolute will by this ‘natural process’ fall into apathy, candidate’s with a low level of competence may be voted in, our economy will falter and the masses will suffer.
Kierkegaard wrote of moving forward past the irresolute good intention: The yes of the promise is sleep-inducing, but the no, spoken and therefore audible to oneself, is awakening, and repentance is usually not far away.
In the debate in the Commons on 12 November 1936, Churchill attacked the government on rearmament as being "decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Common combinations with irresolute
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the irresolute 2×
- be irresolute 2×
- irresolute adamant 2×
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