ditherer
Never decides anything
A ditherer is someone who hesitates or wavers when making decisions.
The word carries mild contempt—a ditherer isn't carefully deliberating but failing to act: Stop being such a ditherer and just pick a restaurant.
The term suggests annoying indecisiveness rather than thoughtful caution.
Unable to make choices
- vacillatingSwaying between choices
- waveringShowing unsteady resolve
- irresoluteLacking firmness of purpose
- undecidedNot having chosen
wishy-washy · shilly-shally · flip-flopping · hemming and hawing · dilly-dallying · oscillating · equivocating · ambivalent
indecisive
Unable to make choices
- vacillatingSwaying between choices
- waveringShowing unsteady resolve
- irresoluteLacking firmness of purpose
undecided · wishy-washy · shilly-shally · flip-flopping · hemming and hawing · dilly-dallying · oscillating · equivocating · ambivalent · noncommittal
hesitant
Slow to act
faltering · timid · diffident · unsure · doubtful · skeptical · wary · leery · halting · uncertain
nervous
Uneasy and apprehensive
- worriedTroubled by uncertainty
- fretfulAnxiously irritable
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
hand-wringing · agitated · restless · uneasy · troubled · antsy · fretting · stressed · panicky · jittery
- fence sittersfence sitter, waverer, hesitator, swing voter, waffler
- hesitant typeshesitator, waverer, fence-sitter, second guesser, dawdler
- slowpokesslowpoke, slowcoach, dawdler, laggard, straggler
- Wishy-washy peoplewaffler, waverer, vacillator, fence-sitter, flip-flopper
- delayersprocrastinator, staller, dawdler, postponer, foot-dragger
dithererdecider
One who resolves matters
decision-maker · firm · resolute · unwavering · commander
dithererdoer
Person who acts
gladiator · dynamo · self-starter · trailblazer · initiator
- in a ditherState of anxious indecision