Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vacillative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
vac-illa-tive
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Tending to vacillate.

Etymology

From vacillate + -ive.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more vacillative (comparative) most vacillative (superlative)

Questions

What does vacillative mean?
Tending to vacillate.
Where does vacillative come from?
From vacillate + -ive.

How to pronounce vacillative

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