STICKLING

Meaning of STICKLING in English

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stickle

Webster's English dictionary. Английский словарь Webster. 2012

STICKLING — ˈstikliŋ noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English stikeling; akin to Middle Low German stekelink, Middle Dutch stekelinc, Old High …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STICKLING — ( p. pr. & vb. n. ) of Stickle
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
STICKLING — p.pr. & ·vb.n. of stickle.
Webster English vocab
STICKLING — Synonyms and related words : bashful, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, cautious, compunction, demur, demurral, demurring, diffidence, diffident, falter, faltering, hesitance, hesitancy, …
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STICKLE — intransitive verb (~d; stickling) Etymology: alteration of Middle English stightlen, frequentative of stighten to arrange, from Old English stihtan; akin …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
STICKLE — I. ˈstikəl adjective Etymology: Middle English stikell, from Old English sticol; akin to Old Saxon stekul stony, rough, OH stehhal …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STICKLE — /stik"euhl/ , v.i. , stickled, stickling . 1. to argue or haggle insistently, esp. on trivial matters. 2. to raise …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
TIMID — Synonyms and related words : afraid, apprehensive, bashful, cautious, chicken, chickenhearted, confused, conscious, coward, cowardly, cowed, coy, craven, daunted, demure, …
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TENTATIVE — Synonyms and related words : acting, ad hoc, ad interim, alternate, alternative, ambling, analytic, apprehensive, awkward, backup, band-aid, blankminded, callow, …
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STRAINING — Synonyms and related words : bloat, bloating, bolting, breaking point, cautious, clarification, colature, coloring, confabulation, corruption, demurring, destructive distillation, diffident, …
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SQUEAMISH
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SHYNESS — Synonyms and related words : afraidness, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, compunction, confusion, coyness, demur, demureness, demurity, demurral, diffidence, embarrassment, falter, faltering, …
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SHY — Synonyms and related words : Pyrrhonic, about the bush, afraid, agnostic, apprehensive, around the bush, arrested, averse, avert, avoid, back …
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SHRINKING — Synonyms and related words : Olympian, Sanforizing, aloof, aseptic, atrophy, attenuation, backward, bashful, bashfulness, blank, boggle, boggling, chilled, chilly, cold, …
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SHILLY SHALLYING — Synonyms and related words : caution, cautious, cautiousness, dalliance, dallying, dawdling, delaying, demurring, diffidence, diffident, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, equivocation, …
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SCRUPULOUS — Synonyms and related words : Pyrrhonic, accurate, active, agnostic, analyze, attentive, bashful, boggling, canvass, careful, case, cautious, censorious, check over, …
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SCRUPLE
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RECOIL — Synonyms and related words : about the bush, antagonism, antipathy, avoid, avoidance, backfire, backlash, backlashing, backwash, balk, bashfulness, beat around, …
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QUALMISH
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QUALM
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PROTEST
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PAUSE — Synonyms and related words : abeyance, accent, accent mark, afterthought, back down, balance, bar, bashfulness, bind, blench, block, blockage, boggle, …
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OBJECTION
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MODESTY — Synonyms and related words : aloofness, altruism, backwardness, bashfulness, blankness, boggle, boggling, chilliness, coldness, commitment, compunction, consecration, constraint, coolness, decency, …
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MODEST — Synonyms and related words : Olympian, aloof, altruistic, backward, bashful, becoming, betwixt and between, blank, boggling, budget, cheap, chilled, chilly, …
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HESITATION
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HESITATING — Synonyms and related words : agnostic, ambiguous, balbutient, bashful, boggling, capricious, cautious, chancy, changeable, demurring, dicey, diffident, doubting, equivocal, erratic, …
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HESITANT — Synonyms and related words : afraid, agnostic, ambiguous, ambivalent, averse, backward, bashful, boggling, canny, capricious, careful, cautious, chancy, changeable, circumspect, …
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FALTERING — Synonyms and related words : ambling, balbutient, bashful, boggling, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, demurring, diffident, …
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FALTER — Synonyms and related words : Bebung, abandon hope, back down, back out, balance, bashfulness, blench, blunder, bob, bobble, boggle, boggling, …
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DISINCLINED — Synonyms and related words : afraid, allergic, antipathetic, at odds, averse, backward, balking, boggling, cursory, differing, disaffected, disagreeing, disenchanted, disobedient, …
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