Word Meanings - MISDOUBTFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Misgiving; hesitating. "Her misdoubtful mind." Spenser.

Related words: (words related to MISDOUBTFUL)

• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• HESITATINGLY
  With hesitation or doubt.
• MISGIVE
  1. To give or grant amiss. Laud. 2. Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun.
• HESITATE
  haerere to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold fast. Cf. Aghast, 1. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate
• HESITATORY
  Hesitating. R. North.
• MISDOUBTFUL
  Misgiving; hesitating. "Her misdoubtful mind." Spenser.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• HESITATIVE
  Showing, or characterized by, hesitation. in his mild, hesitative way. R. D. Blackmore.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.