slovodefinícia
doubtful
(encz)
doubtful,nejistý adj: Zdeněk Brož
doubtful
(encz)
doubtful,pochybný adj: Zdeněk Brož
Doubtful
(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.
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Methinks I should know you, and know this man;
Yet I am doubtful. --Shak.
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With doubtful feet and wavering resolution.
--Milton.
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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.
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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good. --Shak.
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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.
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3. Characterized by ambiguity; dubious; as, a doubtful
expression; a doubtful phrase.
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4. Of uncertain issue or event.
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We . . . have sustained one day in doubtful fight.
--Milton.
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The strife between the two principles had been long,
fierce, and doubtful. --Macaulay.
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5. Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious. [Obs.]
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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.
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doubtful
(wn)
doubtful
adj 1: 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)]
2: 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]
3: unsettled in mind or opinion; "drew a few tentative
conclusions" [syn: doubtful, tentative]
podobné slovodefinícia
doubtfully
(encz)
doubtfully,nejistě adv: Zdeněk Broždoubtfully,pochybně adv: Zdeněk Broždoubtfully,pochybovačně adv: Zdeněk Brož
doubtfulness
(encz)
doubtfulness,pochybnost n: Zdeněk Brož
Doubtful
(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.
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Methinks I should know you, and know this man;
Yet I am doubtful. --Shak.
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With doubtful feet and wavering resolution.
--Milton.
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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.
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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good. --Shak.
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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.
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3. Characterized by ambiguity; dubious; as, a doubtful
expression; a doubtful phrase.
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4. Of uncertain issue or event.
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We . . . have sustained one day in doubtful fight.
--Milton.
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The strife between the two principles had been long,
fierce, and doubtful. --Macaulay.
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5. Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious. [Obs.]
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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.
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Doubtfully
(gcide)
Doubtfully \Doubt"ful*ly\, adv.
In a doubtful manner.
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Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. --Dryden.
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Doubtfulness
(gcide)
Doubtfulness \Doubt"ful*ness\, n.
1. State of being doubtful.
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2. Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The
doubtfulness of his expressions." --Locke.
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3. Uncertainty of event or issue. --Bacon.
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Misdoubtful
(gcide)
Misdoubtful \Mis*doubt"ful\, a
Misgiving; hesitating. [Obs.] "Her misdoubtful mind."
--Spenser.
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Undoubtful
(gcide)
Undoubtful \Undoubtful\
See doubtful.
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doubtfully
(wn)
doubtfully
adv 1: in a doubtful manner; "Gerald shook his head doubtfully"
[syn: doubtfully, dubiously]
doubtfulness
(wn)
doubtfulness
n 1: the state of being unsure of something [syn: doubt,
uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness,
dubiousness] [ant: certainty]
2: uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of
something; "the dubiousness of his claim"; "there is no
question about the validity of the enterprise" [syn: doubt,
dubiousness, doubtfulness, question]

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