All 13 Uses
irresolute
in
Little Dorrit
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- He was a shy, retiring man; well-looking, though in an effeminate style; with a mild voice, curling hair, and irresolute hands—rings upon the fingers in those days—which nervously wandered to his trembling lip a hundred times in the first half-hour of his acquaintance with the jail.†
Chpt 1.6
- The irresolute fingers went to the trembling lip.†
Chpt 1.6
- 'Two,' said the debtor, lifting his irresolute hand to his lip again, and turning into the prison.†
Chpt 1.6
- The irresolute fingers fluttered more and more ineffectually about the trembling lip on every such occasion, and the sharpest practitioners gave him up as a hopeless job.†
Chpt 1.6
- while his irresolute fingers bedabbled the tears upon his face—up one of the common staircases in the prison to a door on the garret story.†
Chpt 1.6
- By this time, the rings had begun to fall from the debtor's irresolute hands, like leaves from a wintry tree.†
Chpt 1.6
- But, to the last, the irresolute hand of old would remain in the pocket into which he had slipped the money during two or three turns about the yard, lest the transaction should be too conspicuous to the general body of collegians.†
Chpt 1.6
- The debtor irresolutely thought of it for a minute, and said, 'Perhaps you wouldn't object to really being her godfather?'†
Chpt 1.7 *
- He was an undecided, irresolute chap, who had everything but his orphan life scared out of him when he was young.†
Chpt 1.15
- How expressive that heightened colour in her face, that fluttered manner, her downcast eyes, her irresolute happiness!†
Chpt 1.17
- It was very curious to see them standing together: the girl with her disengaged fingers plaiting the bosom of her dress, half irresolutely, half passionately; Miss Wade with her composed face attentively regarding her, and suggesting to an observer, with extraordinary force, in her composure itself (as a veil will suggest the form it covers), the unquenchable passion of her own nature.†
Chpt 1.27
- She was half afraid of him, and irresolute what to say.†
Chpt 1.32
- It was before my time here; but I've heerd in my dreams that Arthur's father was a poor, irresolute, frightened chap, who had had everything but his orphan life scared out of him when he was young, and that he had no voice in the choice of his wife even, but his uncle chose her.†
Chpt 2.30
Definitions:
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(1)
(irresolute) uncertain how to act or proceedThe prefix "ir-" in irresolute means not and reverses the meaning of resolute. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)