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Definition: DUBITATIVE |
DUBITATIVEAdjective1. Tending to doubt; doubtful. |
Date "DUBITATIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
Etymology: Dubitative \Du"bi*ta*tive\, adjective. [Latin expression dubitativus: compare to the French expression dubitatif.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Language | Translations for "DUBITATIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | dubitativ, nehotãrât (at pause, doubtful, hesitating, indecisive, indefinite, infirm of purpose, irresolute, namby-pamby, pendent, pending, undecided, vague). (various references) | |
Turkish | kararsızlık belirten, şüpheli (chancy, contestable, creaky, debatable, discredited, disputable, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, funny, funny peculiar, hazardous, indecisive, indefinable, murky, nebulous, precarious, problematic, problematical, sceptical, screwy, shadowy, shady, shaky, skeptical, speculative, suspect, suspenseful, suspicious, umbrageous, uncertain, unconvincing). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | do dự (double-minded, hesitant, hesitatingly, hesitative, indecisive, indeterminate, irresolute, shilly-shally, suspensive, undecided, undecisive, undetermined, unsettled, wavering), nghi ngờ (doubtful, entertainment, mistrustful, reffective), ngờ vực (askance, askant, defiant, doubtful, mistrustful), lưỡng lự (double-minded, doubtful, dubious, haltingly, hesitant, hesitatingly, hesitative, indecisive, seesaw, shilly-shally, undecided, unsteady), h" nghi (mistrustful). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-i-i-t-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: auditive, vitiated. | |
-3 letters: abutted, vitiate. | |
-4 letters: baited, batted, battue, bitted, butted, dative, dautie, tabued, tauted, tibiae, tidbit, tubate, vatted, vittae. | |
-5 letters: abide, adieu, audit, bated, battu, beaut, betta, bidet, butte, daube, davit, debit, debut, duvet, ivied, tabid, teiid, tibia, tubae, tubed, vitae, vitta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-i-i-t-t-u-v" | |
+4 letters: substantivized. | |
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