| Oscillatory (a.) Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion. Thesaurus Entries alternate, beating, circling, cyclic, epochal, even, every other, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, harmonic, intermittent, isochronal, libratory, measured, metronomic, nutational, oscillating, pendular, pendulating, pendulous, periodic, periodical, pulsing, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, resonant, rhythmic, rotary, seasonal, serial, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, steady, undulant, undulatory, vacillating, vacillatory, vibratile, vibrating, vibratory, wavelike, wavering, wheeling, wobbly |