[usuallybeforenoun] (especially of speech or movement) stopping and starting often, especially because you are not certain or are not very confident:
a halting conversation * a toddler's first few halting steps * Europe's halting progress towards greater unity
haltingly adverb:
'Well...' she began haltingly.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for halting is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is halting a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, halting is tagged as adjective.
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