DUBITATIVE

  

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DUBITATIVE

Definition: DUBITATIVE

DUBITATIVE

Adjective

1. Tending to doubt; doubtful.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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)


Modern Translation: DUBITATIVE

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.

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Anagrams: DUBITATIVE

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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