Dubious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Fraught with uncertainty or doubt; undecided.
  • adj. Arousing doubt; doubtful: a dubious distinction.
  • adj. Of questionable character: dubious profits.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion.
  • adj. In disbelief; wavering, uncertain, or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt; undecided.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.
  • adj. Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful.
  • adj. Of uncertain event or issue.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Doubting; hesitating; wavering or fluctuating in opinion, but inclined to doubt.
  • Doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt or uncertainty; difficult to determine or relieve of uncertainty; not distinct or plain; puzzling: as, a dubious question; a dubious light.
  • Of uncertain event or issue: as, a dubious undertaking.
  • Liable to doubt or suspicion; of doubtful quality or propriety; questionable: as, a man of dubious character; a dubious transaction; his morals or his methods are dubious. Synonyms Unsettled, undetermined.
  • Doubtful, Ambiguous, etc. (see obscure, a.); questionable, problematical, puzzling.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. open to doubt or suspicion
  • adj. fraught with uncertainty or doubt
  • adj. not convinced
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