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dithery

adj

Etymology

From dither + -y.

  1. inherited from *titrōną✻
  2. inherited from dideren — “to tremble”
  3. suffixed as dithery — “dither + y”

Definitions

  1. Unable to think straight

    Unable to think straight; tending to dither.

  2. Constantly moving about

  3. Characterized by dithering.

    • It has been a dithery decade for nuclear policy. After the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, several countries began shuttering their reactors and tearing up plans for new ones.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dithery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA