Meaning & use
vacillator
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A person who wavers or hesitates repeatedly between different opinions or actions, unable to commit to a decision.
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As a notorious vacillator, he changed his mind about the proposal three times in one meeting.
The committee grew frustrated with the vacillator who kept reversing his vote.
A note on using this word
Derived from the verb 'vacillate', from the Latin 'vacillare', meaning 'to sway or totter'.
Words with a similar meaning
wavererditherer
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Words with an opposite meaning
decider
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