hawed
The word “hawed” has 1 syllable: hawed
It's pronounced as /hɔd/
What is synonym and antonym for hawed?
In the thesaurus, “hawed” has 34 synonyms and 5 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for hawed along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for hawed
- backed down
- balanced
- considered
- dallied
- dawdled
- debated
- delayed
- deliberated
- dithered
- equivocated
- faltered
- halted
- hedged
- hemmed
- hesitated
- hung back
- lingered
- oscillated
- paused
- pondered
- procrastinated
- pussyfooted
- scrupled
- shilly-shallied
- staggered
- swayed
- teetered
- vacillated
- wabbled
- waffled
- waited
- wavered
- weighed
- wobbled
Antonyms for hawed
- advanced
- budged
- continued
- decided
- stirred
Example Sentences
- He hawed nervously before finally answering the question.
- The mule hawed sharply when given the command.
- She hawed and shifted in her seat during the interview.
- The politician hawed when pressed for a direct response.
- They hawed for a moment, unsure of how to proceed.
On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to hawed, such as: advanced, backed down, balanced, budged, considered, continued, dallied.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
Related Words
vacillated
wabbled
- agitated
- backed down
- balanced
- beat
- blundered
- bucked
- bucketed
- careened
- chattered
- considered
- convulsed
- dallied
- dawdled
- debated
- delayed
- deliberated
- dithered
- doddered
- equivocated
- faltered
- flickered
- floundered
- fluctuated
- fluttered
- halted
- hawed
- hedged
- hemmed
- hesitated
- hitched
- hobbled
- hung back
- jerked
- jiggled
- joggled
- jolted
- jounced
- juddered
- lingered
- lurched
- oscillated
- palpitated
- paused
- pit-a-patted
- pitched
- pitter-pattered
- pondered
- procrastinated
- pulsated
- pulsed
- pussyfooted
- quaked
- quavered
- quivered
- reeled
- rocked
- rolled
- scrupled
- seesawed
- shilly-shallied
- shivered
- shook
- shuddered
- staggered
- stumbled
- swayed
- swung
- teetered
- thrilled
- throbbed
- toddled
- tossed
- tottered
- trembled
- tumbled
- twitched
- undulated
- vacillated
- vibrated
- waddled
- waffled
- wagged
- waggled
- waited
- waved
- wavered
- weaved
- weighed
balanced
- Apollinian
- Apollonian
- accommodated
- adjusted
- aesthetic
- aesthetical
- agreeable
- analytic
- analytical
- artistic
- backed down
- becoming
- certified
- clear
- cleared
- clearheaded
- coherent
- cohesive
- compatible
- compensated
- compos mentis
- confirmed
- congruous
- considered
- consonant
- coordinated
- correspondent
- counterbalanced
- dallied
- dawdled
- debated
- delayed
- deliberated
- democratized
- discharged
- dithered
- elegant
- equalized
- equated
- equilibrated
- equipoised
- equitable
- equivalent
- equivocated
- esthetic
- esthetical
- eurhythmic
- eurythmic
- even
- even-keeled
- evened
- fair
- faltered
- felicitous
- fit
- fitted
- footed
- graceful
- halted
- harmonic
- harmonious
- hawed
- healthy
- hedged
- hemmed
- hesitated
- homogenized
- hung back
- judicious
- just
- leveled
- levelheaded
- levelled
- lingered
- liquidated
- logical
- lucid
- matched
- matching
- met
- normal
- normalized
- offset
- oscillated
- paid
- paid off
- paid up
- paused
- pleasant
- pleasing
- pondered
- ponied up
- procrastinated
- proportional
- proportioned
- pussyfooted
- quit
- quitted
- rational
- reasonable
- recompensed
- regular
- regularized
- right
- sane
- satisfying
- scrupled
- sensible
- settled
- shilly-shallied
- sound
- stabilized
- stable
- staggered
- standardized
- stood
- swayed
- symmetric
- symmetrical
- tasteful
- teetered
- uniform
- unneurotic
- vacillated
- validated
- wabbled
- waffled
- waited
- wavered
- weighed
- well-adjusted
- well-balanced
- wise
- wobbled
halted
- abated
- abolished
- aborted
- annulled
- apoplectic
- arrested
- at a standstill
- at rest
- backed down
- baffled
- balanced
- balked
- becalmed
- bit the dust
- blockaded
- blocked
- blundered
- bottlenecked
- braked
- broke
- broke down
- broke off
- broke up
- brought up
- called
- canned
- caught
- ceased
- checked
- choked off
- clamped down
- clogged
- closed
- completed
- concluded
- considered
- cut off
- cut out
- dallied
- dammed
- dawdled
- deactivated
- dead
- dead-ended
- deadlocked
- deathly
- debated
- deferred
- delayed
- deliberated
- demolished
- destroyed
- detained
- determined
- died
- discontinued
- dissolved
- dithered
- doddered
- drew up
- dropped
- elapsed
- ended
- equivocated
- established
- expired
- faltered
- fetched up
- finished
- firm
- fixed
- floundered
- frozen
- gave over
- had done with
- hawed
- hedged
- held
- held back
- held up
- hemmed
- hesitated
- hindered
- hitched
- hobbled
- hung back
- immobile
- immotile
- impeded
- inanimate
- inert
- interrupted
- kiboshed
- killed
- knocked off
- laid off
- lapsed
- left
- left off
- let up
- lifeless
- limped
- lingered
- lurched
- numb
- obstructed
- oscillated
- palsied
- paralyzed
- passed
- paused
- petrified
- placed
- planted
- pondered
- positioned
- procrastinated
- pulled up
- pussyfooted
- put
- put the kibosh on
- quiescent
- quiet
- quit
- quitted
- receding
- regressing
- repressed
- retrogressing
- ruined
- scrupled
- scuttled
- shambled
- shilly-shallied
- shuffled
- shut off
- snagged
- snuffed
- spellbound
- squashed
- squelched
- stable
- staggered
- stagnant
- stalled
- stamped
- stanched
- standing
- static
- stationary
- staunched
- stayed
- steadfast
- stemmed
- still
- stilled
- stock-still
- stopped
- stored
- stumbled
- stunted
- suppressed
- suspended
- swayed
- teetered
- terminated
- torpid
- tottered
- transfixed
- turned back
- unmovable
- unmoved
- unmoving
- vacillated
- wabbled
- waffled
- waited
- wavered
- weighed
- went
- winded down
- winded up
- wobbled
- wound down
- wound up
faltered
- backed down
- balanced
- be undecided
- bobble
- break
- careened
- considered
- dallied
- dawdled
- debated
- delayed
- deliberated
- dithered
- drop the ball
- equivocated
- flounder
- floundered
- fluctuate
- fluff
- halt
- halted
- hawed
- hedged
- hem and haw
- hemmed
- hesitate
- hesitated
- hung back
- lingered
- lurch
- lurched
- oscillated
- paused
- pondered
- procrastinated
- pussyfooted
- quaked
- quaver
- quavered
- quivered
- reel
- reeled
- rock
- rocked
- roll
- scruple
- scrupled
- shake
- shilly-shallied
- shook
- shuddered
- speak haltingly
- stagger
- staggered
- stammer
- stub toe
- stumbled
- swayed
- teeter
- teetered
- toddled
- topple
- totter
- tottered
- tremble
- trembled
- trip up
- vacillate
- vacillated
- vibrated
- wabbled
- waffled
- waited
- waver
- wavered
- weaved
- weighed
- whiffle
- wobble
- wobbled