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doubtful
adjective
1 doubtful
Open to doubt or suspicion:
— The candidate's doubtful past.
synonyms: dubious, dubitable, in question.
Roget 475:
uncertain;
casual;
random
etc.
(aimless)
621;
changeable
etc.
149.
doubtful,
dubious;
indecisive;
unsettled,
undecided,
undetermined;
in suspense,
open to discussion;
controvertible;
in question
etc.
(inquiry)
461.
vague;
indeterminate,
indefinite;
ambiguous,
equivocal;
undefined,
undefinable;
confused
etc.
(indistinct)
447;
mystic,
oracular;
dazed.
perplexing
etc.
v.;
enigmatic,
paradoxical,
apocryphal,
problematical,
hypothetical;
experimental
etc.
463.
unpredictable,
unforeseeable
(unknowable)
519.
fallible,
questionable,
precarious,
slippery,
ticklish,
debatable,
disputable;
unreliable,
untrustworthy.
contingent,
contingent on,
dependent on;
subject to;
dependent on circumstances;
occasional;
provisional.
unauthentic,
unauthenticated,
unauthoritative;
unascertained,
unconfirmed;
undemonstrated;
untold,
uncounted.
in a state of uncertainty,
in a cloud,
in a maze;
bushed,
off the track;
ignorant,
etc.
491;
afraid to say;
out of one's reckoning,
astray,
adrift;
at sea,
at fault,
at a loss,
at one's wit's end,
at a nonplus;
puzzled
etc.
v.;
lost,
abroad,
d_esorient_e;
distracted,
distraught.
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Roget 461:
inquiry
etc.
v.;
inquisitive
etc.
(curious)
455;
requisitive†,
requisitory†;
catechetical†,
inquisitorial,
analytic;
in search of,
in quest of;
on the lookout for,
interrogative,
zetetic†;
all searching.
undetermined,
untried,
undecided;
in question,
in dispute,
in issue,
in course of inquiry;
under discussion,
under consideration,
under investigation
etc.
n.;
sub judice [Lat.],
moot,
proposed;
doubtful
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
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Roget 485:
unbelieving;
skeptical,
sceptical.
incredulous as to,
skeptical as to;
distrustful as to,
shy as to,
suspicious of;
doubting
etc.
v..
doubtful
etc.
(uncertain)
475;
disputable;
unworthy of,
undeserving of belief
etc.
484;
questionable;
suspect,
suspicious;
open to suspicion,
open to doubt;
staggering,
hard to believe,
incredible,
unbelievable,
not to be believed,
inconceivable;
impossible
etc.
471.
fallible
etc.
(uncertain)
475;
undemonstrable;
controvertible
etc.
(untrue)
495.
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Polish: problematyczny, niepewny, wątpliwy
2 doubtful
Fraught with uncertainty or doubt:
— They were doubtful that the cord would hold.
— It was doubtful whether she would be admitted.
synonym: dubious.
3 doubtful
Unsettled in mind or opinion.
synonym: tentative.
Moby thesaurus: Humean, Pyrrhonic, 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, 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, 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 ... show more.
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