'Dubious' definitions:
Definition of 'dubious'
(from WordNet)
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
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
Not convinced; "they admitted the force of my argument but remained dubious"
Definition of 'Dubious'
From: GCIDE
- Dubious \Du"bi*ous\, a. [L. dubius, dubiosus, fr. duo two. See Two, and cf. Doubt.]
- 1. Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined. "Dubious policy." --Sir T. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- A dubious, agitated state of mind. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer. [1913 Webster]
- Wiping the dingy shirt with a still more dubious pocket handkerchief. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.
- Syn: Doubtful; doubting; unsettled; undetermined; equivocal; uncertain. Cf. Doubtful. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dubious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- absurd,
- agnostic,
- ambitendent,
- ambivalent,
- amoral,
- arguable,
- at issue,
- at loose ends,
- beguiling,
- beyond belief,
- capricious,
- catchy,
- changeable,
- confutable,
- conjectural,
- conscienceless,
- contestable,
- controversial,
- controvertible,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- dark,
- debatable,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- deniable,
- devious,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- disinclined,
- disputable,
- distrustful,
- double-minded,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubitable,
- equivocal,
- evasive,
- fallacious,
- false,
- felonious,
- fence-sitting,
- fence-straddling,
- fickle,
- fishy,
- fly-by-night,
- fraudulent,
- from Missouri,
- hallucinatory,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- hardly possible,
- hesitant,
- Humean,
- iffy,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- immoral,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- in dispute,
- in doubt,
- in dubio,
- in question,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- incredulous,
- indecisive,
- indirect,
- infirm of purpose,
- insecure,
- insidious,
- irresolute,
- irresolved,
- leery,
- mercurial,
- misleading,
- mistakable,
- mistrustful,
- mistrusting,
- moot,
- more than doubtful,
- mugwumpian,
- mugwumpish,
- mutable,
- not deserving belief,
- not kosher,
- of two minds,
- open,
- open to doubt,
- open to question,
- open to suspicion,
- passing belief,
- preposterous,
- problematic,
- Pyrrhonic,
- questionable,
- questioning,
- refutable,
- reluctant,
- ridiculous,
- rocky,
- rotten,
- scrupulous,
- shady,
- shaky,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- shy,
- sinister,
- skeptic,
- skeptical,
- slippery,
- speculative,
- staggering belief,
- suppositional,
- suspect,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tall,
- thick,
- thin,
- tottery,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- trustless,
- unbelievable,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- unconvincing,
- undecided,
- undependable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undetermined,
- unearthly,
- unethical,
- ungodly,
- unhealthy,
- unimaginable,
- unlikely,
- unpredictable,
- unprincipled,
- unpromising,
- unreliable,
- unresolved,
- unsafe,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unstraightforward,
- unsure,
- unthinkable,
- untrusting,
- untrustworthy,
- untrusty,
- unworthy of belief,
- wary,
- without remorse,
- without shame