Word Meanings - DOUBTOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Doubtful. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to DOUBTOUS)

• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• DOUBTFULNESS
  1. State of being doubtful. 2. Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." Locke. 3. Uncertainty of event or issue. Bacon.
• DOUBTFUL
  1. 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; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure. Methinks I should
• MISDOUBTFUL
  Misgiving; hesitating. "Her misdoubtful mind." Spenser.