Doubtful

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Subject to or causing doubt: a doubtful claim; doubtful prospects.
  • adj. Experiencing or showing doubt: Doubtful that the cord would hold, we strengthened it.
  • adj. Of uncertain outcome; undecided.
  • adj. Raising doubts as to legitimacy, honesty, or respectability; suspicious: the candidate's doubtful past. See Usage Note at doubt.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Subject to, or causing doubt
  • adj. Experiencing or showing doubt, sceptical
  • adj. Undecided or of uncertain outcome
  • adj. Fearsome, dreadful.
  • adj. Improbable or unlikely
  • adj. Suspicious, or of dubious character
  • adj. Unclear or unreliable
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind.
  • adj. Admitting of doubt; not obvious, clear, or certain; questionable; not decided; not easy to be defined, classed, or named.
  • adj. Characterized by ambiguity; dubious
  • adj. Of uncertain issue or event.
  • adj. Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Full of doubt; having doubt; not settled in opinion.
  • Causing doubt; dubious; ambiguous; uncertain; not distinct in character, meaning, or appearance; vague: as, a doubtful expression; a doubtful hue.
  • Admitting of or subject to doubt; not obvious, clear, or certain; questionable.
  • Of uncertain issue; precarious; shifting.
  • Of questionable or suspected character.
  • Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious.
  • Indicating doubt; disturbed by doubt.
  • In prosody, variable in quantity; capable of being pronounced or measured either as a long or as a short; common; dichronous.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. open to doubt or suspicion
  • adj. fraught with uncertainty or doubt
  • adj. unsettled in mind or opinion
    • Equivalent
    questionable    uncertain    unsure    incertain    unsettled   
    Cross Reference
    uncertain   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    problematical    uncertain    questionable    distrustful    wavering   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dubious    uncertain    peculiar    false    unpleasant   
     
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