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doubtful
/ˈdaʊtfəl/
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What does doubtful mean?
adjective
- Subject to, or causing doubt.
- Experiencing or showing doubt, skeptical.
- Undecided or of uncertain outcome.
More meanings (5)
adjective
- Improbable or unlikely.
- Suspicious, or of dubious character.
- Unclear or unreliable.
- (obsolete) Fearsome, dreadful.
noun
- A doubtful person or thing.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdaʊtfəl/
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We were rather doubtful on this point, and inclined to hold that there was more chance of improvement in greater physical variation.
Mr. Waite—torn between his respect for my lord and his dislike of that particular type of joke—only replied with a doubtful grunt.
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People in the branches of the trees over Tom’s head said he wasn’t trying to get away—he only looked doubtful and perplexed.
But whether he should succeed in that mode of contributing to the majority on the right side was very doubtful to him.
How that visit was to be acknowledged—what would be necessary—and what might be safest, had been a point of some doubtful consideration.