doubt as a noun: - 1
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as a verb: - 1
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doubt
noun
1 doubt
The state of being unsure of something.
synonyms: doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty.
Roget 485:
unbelief,
disbelief,
misbelief;
discredit,
miscreance†;
infidelity
etc.
(irreligion)
989†;
dissent
etc.
489;
change of opinion
etc.
484;
retraction
etc.
607.
doubt
etc.
(uncertainty)
475;
skepticism,
scepticism,
misgiving,
demure;
distrust,
mistrust,
cynicism;
misdoubt†,
suspicion,
jealousy,
scruple,
qualm;
onus probandi [Lat.].
incredibility,
incredibleness;
incredulity.
[person who doubts]
doubter,
skeptic,
cynic. ;
unbeliever
etc.
487.
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Roget 989:
irreligion†,
indevotion†;
godlessness,
ungodliness
etc.
adj.;
laxity,
quietism.
skepticism,
doubt;
unbelief,
disbelief;
incredulity,
incredulousness
etc.
adj.†;
want of faith,
want of belief;
pyrrhonism;
bout
etc.
485;
agnosticism.
atheism;
deism;
hylotheism†;
materialism;
positivism;
nihilism.
infidelity,
freethinking,
antichristianity†,
rationalism;
neology.
[person who is not religious]
atheist,
skeptic,
unbeliever,
deist,
infidel,
pyrrhonist;
giaour†,
heathen,
alien,
gentile,
Nazarene;
espri fort [Fr.],
freethinker,
latitudinarian,
rationalist;
materialist,
positivist,
nihilist,
agnostic,
somatist†,
theophobist†.
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Roget 475:
uncertainty,
incertitude,
doubt;
doubtfulness
etc.
adj.;
dubiety,
dubitation†,
dubitancy†,
dubitousness†.
hesitation,
suspense;
perplexity,
embarrassment,
dilemma,
bewilderment;
timidity
etc.
(fear)
860;
vacillation
etc.
605;
diaporesis†,
indetermination.
vagueness
etc.
adj.;
haze,
fog;
obscurity
etc.
(darkness)
421;
ambiguity
etc.
(double meaning)
520;
contingency,
dependence,
dependency,
double contingency,
possibility upon a possibility;
open question
etc.
(question)
461;
onus probandi [Lat.];
blind bargain,
pig in a poke,
leap in the dark,
something or other;
needle in a haystack,
needle in a bottle of hay;
roving commission.
precariousness
etc.
adj.;
fallibility.
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Dutch: aarzeling, onzekerheid, twijfel, weifeling
Polish: obiekcja, wątpliwość, zastrzeżenie
2 doubt
Uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something.
synonyms: doubtfulness, dubiousness, question.
Dutch: twijfel, onzekerheid
Polish: powątpiewanie, niepewność, wątpliwość
verb
1 doubt
Consider unlikely or have doubts about.
Roget 485:
disbelieve,
discredit;
not believe
etc.
484;
misbelieve†;
refuse to admit
etc.
(dissent)
489;
refuse to believe
etc.
(incredulity)
487.
doubt;
be doubtful
etc.
(uncertain)
475;
doubt the truth of;
be skeptical as to
etc.
adj.;
diffide†;
distrust,
mistrust;
suspect,
smoke,
scent,
smell a rat;
have doubts,
harbor doubts,
entertain doubts,
suspicions;
have one's doubts.
demure,
stick at,
pause,
hesitate,
scruple;
stop to consider,
waver.
hang in suspense,
hang in doubt.
throw doubt upon,
raise a question;
bring in,
call in question;
question,
challenge,
dispute;
deny
etc.
536;
cavil;
cause a doubt,
raise a doubt,
start a doubt,
suggest a doubt,
awake a doubt,
make suspicion;
ergotize†.
startle,
stagger;
shake one's faith,
shake one's belief,
stagger one's faith,
stagger one's belief.
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Roget 989:
be irreligious
etc.
adj.;
disbelieve,
lack faith;
doubt,
question
etc.
485.
dechristianize†.
Roget 421:
be dark
etc.
adj..
darken,
obscure,
shade;
dim;
tone down,
lower;
overcast,
overshadow;
eclipse;
obfuscate,
offuscate†;
obumbrate†,
adumbrate;
cast into the shade becloud,
bedim†,
bedarken†;
cast a shade,
throw a shade,
spread a shade,
cast a shadow,
cast a gloom,
throw a shadow,
spread a shadow,
cast gloom,
throw gloom,
spread gloom.
extinguish;
put out,
blow out,
snuff out;
doubt.
turn out the lights,
douse the lights,
dim the lights,
turn off the lights,
switch off the lights.
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Roget 475:
be uncertain
etc.
adj.;
wonder whether.
lose the clue,
lose the clew,
scent;
miss one's way.
not know what to make of
etc.
(unintelligibility)
519,
not know which way to turn,
not know whether one stands on one s head or one's not know whether one stands on one s head or one's heels;
float in a sea of doubt,
hesitate,
flounder;
lose oneself,
lose one's head;
muddle one's brains.
render uncertain
etc.
adj.;
put out,
pose,
puzzle,
perplex,
embarrass;
confuse,
confound;
bewilder,
bother,
molder,
addle the wits,
throw off the scent,
ambiguas in vulgus spargere voces [Lat.];
keep in suspense.
doubt
etc.
(disbelieve)
485;
hang in the balance,
tremble in the balance;
depend.
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Dutch: afvragen, betwijfelen, twijfelen
2 doubt
Lack confidence in or have doubts about.
Dutch: betwijfelen, dubben, twijfelen, wankelen
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