halting — OET

halting

adjective

1 a rather halting conversation | he spoke to us in halting English:

hesitant, disjointed, faltering, hesitating, stumbling, stammering, stuttering;

broken, non-fluent, imperfect, laboured.

▷antonyms fluent.

2 his halting gait:

unsteady, awkward, uneven, faltering, stumbling, limping, hobbling.

▷antonyms steady, adroit, nimble.

halting Oxford Dictionary of English