Translation guide
Describes speech, movement, or progress that is hesitant, broken, or stopping and starting.
To describe speech that is not smooth, with pauses, stuttering, or uncertainty.
To describe physical movement or progress that is jerky, hesitant, or stopping and starting.
I got nervous and my speech became halting.
Broken, intermittent; used for speech that comes in fits and starts.
He spoke in a halting voice.
Awkward, clumsy, lacking smoothness; used for movements or actions.
His walk was halting.
Slowly, sluggishly; often implies a halting pace.
The car moved forward at a halting pace.
Stagnant, stalled; used for progress that is halting or not moving smoothly.
The negotiations remained halting.