'Doubtful' definitions:
Definition of 'doubtful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Open to doubt or suspicion; "the candidate's doubtful past"; "he has a dubious record indeed"; "what one found uncertain the other found dubious or downright false"; "it was more than dubitable whether the friend was as influential as she thought"- Karen Horney [syn: doubtful, dubious, dubitable, in question(p)]
adjective
Fraught with uncertainty or doubt; "they were doubtful that the cord would hold"; "it was doubtful whether she would be admitted"; "dubious about agreeing to go" [syn: doubtful, dubious]
adjective
Unsettled in mind or opinion; "drew a few tentative conclusions" [syn: doubtful, tentative]
Definition of 'Doubtful'
From: GCIDE
- Doubtful \Doubt"ful\, a.
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- With doubtful feet and wavering resolution. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Admitting of doubt; not obvious, clear, or certain; questionable; not decided; not easy to be defined, classed, or named; as, a doubtful case, hue, claim, title, species, and the like. [1913 Webster]
- Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Is it a great cruelty to expel from our abode the enemy of our peace, or even the doubtful friend [i. e., one as to whose sincerity there may be doubts]? --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Characterized by ambiguity; dubious; as, a doubtful expression; a doubtful phrase. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Of uncertain issue or event. [1913 Webster]
- We . . . have sustained one day in doubtful fight. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The strife between the two principles had been long, fierce, and doubtful. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- I am doubtful that you have been conjunct And bosomed with her. --Shak.
- Syn: Wavering; vacillating; hesitating; undetermined; distrustful; dubious; uncertain; equivocal; ambiguous; problematical; questionable. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'doubtful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- absurd,
- agnostic,
- ambiguous,
- amoral,
- arguable,
- at issue,
- beyond belief,
- borderline,
- chancy,
- clouded,
- confutable,
- conjectural,
- conscienceless,
- contestable,
- contingent,
- controversial,
- controvertible,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- dark,
- debatable,
- deniable,
- devious,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- disputable,
- disreputable,
- distrustful,
- doubtable,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- equivocal,
- evasive,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- from Missouri,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- hardly possible,
- hazy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- Humean,
- iffy,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- in dispute,
- in doubt,
- in dubio,
- in question,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- incredulous,
- indecisive,
- indefinite,
- indeterminate,
- indirect,
- insecure,
- insidious,
- leery,
- mistakable,
- mistrustful,
- mistrusting,
- moot,
- more than doubtful,
- not deserving belief,
- not kosher,
- obscure,
- open,
- open to doubt,
- open to question,
- open to suspicion,
- passing belief,
- precarious,
- preposterous,
- problematic,
- Pyrrhonic,
- queasy,
- questionable,
- questioning,
- refutable,
- ridiculous,
- rocky,
- rotten,
- sceptical,
- scrupulous,
- shady,
- shaky,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- shy,
- sinister,
- skeptic,
- skeptical,
- slippery,
- speculative,
- staggering belief,
- suppositional,
- suspect,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tall,
- thick,
- thin,
- tottery,
- touch-and-go,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- unbelievable,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- unconvinced,
- unconvincing,
- undecided,
- undependable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unearthly,
- uneasy,
- unethical,
- ungodly,
- unhealthy,
- unimaginable,
- unlikely,
- unpredictable,
- unprincipled,
- unpromising,
- unreliable,
- unresolved,
- unsafe,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unstraightforward,
- unsure,
- unthinkable,
- untrusting,
- untrustworthy,
- unworthy of belief,
- vacillating,
- vague,
- wary,
- without remorse,
- without shame