Doubtful

Definition: Doubtful

Doubtful

Adjective

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.

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".

3. Unsettled in mind or opinion; "drew a few tentative conclusions".

Date "doubtful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definition
Finance	One of the categories of classified assets. See classification of assets. (references)
Military	In artillery and naval gunfire support, a term used by an observer or spotter to indicate that he was unable to determine the difference in range between the target and a round or rounds. (references)
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Synonyms: Doubtful

Synonyms: dubious (adj), dubitable (adj), in question(p) (adj), tentative (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Improbability	Rare; (infrequent); unheard of, inconceivable; unimaginable, inimaginable; incredible; more than doubtful; strange, bizarre (uncomformable).
Inquiry	Undetermined, untried, undecided; in question, in dispute, in issue, in course of inquiry; under discussion, under consideration, under investigation; Noun: sub judice, moot, proposed; doubtful; (uncertain).
Unbelief Doubt	Doubtful; (uncertain); disputable; unworthy of, undeserving of belief; questionable; suspect, suspicious; open to suspicion, open to doubt; staggering, hard to believe, incredible, unbelievable, not to be believed, inconceivable; impossible.
	Doubt; be doubtful; (uncertain); doubt the truth of; be skeptical as to; Adjective: diffide; distrust, mistrust; suspect, smoke, scent, smell a rat; have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts, suspicions; have one's doubts.
Uncertainty	Doubtful, dubious; indecisive; unsettled, undecided, undetermined; in suspense, open to discussion; controvertible; in question; (inquiry).
Unintelligibility	Verb: be unintelligible; Adjective: require explanation; have a doubtful meaning, pass comprehension.
	Noun: unintelligibility; incomprehensibility, imperspicuity; inconceivableness, vagueness; Adjective: obscurity; ambiguity; doubtful meaning; uncertainty; perplexity; (confusion); spinosity; obscurum per obscurius; mystification; (concealment); latency; transcendentalism.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Through the road's ahead; too doubtful its bending (Too Great Thy Gift; performing artist: The Heights)
Movie/TV Titles	A Doubtful Deal in Dogs (1914)
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Domain	Title
Books	A Doubtful River (Environmental Arts and Humanities Series) (reference) Doubtful Partners (reference) Foolish Wisdom Book Three of Doubtful Intelligence (reference) Revelations and Visions: Discerning the True and the Certain from the False or the Doubtful (reference) The Doubtful Guest (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Doubtful : can the tedious old turtle be induced to move?. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
John Stuart Mill	The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
Queen Victoria	I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Sallust	All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	If a controversy arise betwixt a prince and some of the people, in a matter where the law is silent, or doubtful, and the thing be of great consequence, I should think the proper umpire, in such a case, should be the body of the people: for in cases where the prince hath a trust reposed in him, and is dispensed from the common ordinary rules of the law; there, if any men find themselves aggrieved, and think the prince acts contrary to, or beyond that trust, who so proper to judge as the body of the people, (who, at first, lodged that trust in him) how far they meant it should extend? But if the prince, or whoever they be in the administration, decline that way of determination, the appeal then lies no where but to heaven; force between either persons, who have no known superior on earth, or which permits no appeal to a judge on earth, being properly a state of war, wherein the appeal lies only to heaven; and in that state the injured party must judge for himself, when he will think fit to make use of that appeal, and put himself upon it. (Second Treatise of Government)
Brown v. Board of Education	1954	In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. (reference)
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart
Through the Looking-Glass	Carroll, Lewis	Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It was doubtful.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Most mighty sovereign, You have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	If we suppose him to pay a rent instead, this is but a doubtful choice of evils
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Ongoing attempts are being made to evaluate the safety and efficacy of this procedure, but it is doubtful that a large randomized trial to compare it with open cholecystectomy will be performed. (references)
		After more than 20 years, a vasectomized man appeared to be twice as likely to develop prostate cancer as a nonvasectomized man of the same age. Although this conclusion may seem startling, scientists generally consider risk findings of this magnitude to be of doubtful significance. (references)
Business		In the short to medium term, it is doubtful that the demand for clean coal technology will increase. (references)
		To be able to secure the required capital at low cost, a leasing company has to demonstrate the quality of its loan portfolio (i.e. low non-accrual loans balance and provisions to doubtful accounts), and must show that it has a careful and transparent credit approval process, adheres to strict collections procedures and has conservative bad debt reserve policies. (references)
Civil Liberties	Malaysia	According to Human Rights Watch, on February 11, an Information Ministry official stated that malaysiakini.com would be barred from covering government press conferences "because their credibility is doubtful." However, this policy was not systematically implemented. (references)
Economic History	Yemen	It is also doubtful that there are sufficient numbers of Yemeni investors to sustain an active stock market. (references)
	Kenya	The affected banks' provision for bad and doubtful debts reduces their profits and declared year-end results. (references)
Political Economy	THE BAHAMAS	It is doubtful that pirated videotapes are exported. (references)
	Central African Republic	Apart from the USP, the military, much of which mutinied in 1996 and 1997, is perceived widely to be of doubtful loyalty to the Patasse Government; the Government has not paid military salaries since October 2000. Members of the security forces were involved in the May coup attempt. (references)
Worker Rights	Russia	The leader subsequently left her position and an individual was charged with "hooliganism" in connection with the youth's death; however, union leaders remained doubtful about the individual's guilt. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Among the Jews observance of the day was enforced by a Commandment of which this is the Christian version: "Remember the seventh day to make thy neighbor keep it wholly." To the Creator it seemed fit and expedient that the Sabbath should be the last day of the week, but the Early Fathers of the Church held other views. So great is the sanctity of the day that even where the Lord holds a doubtful and precarious jurisdiction over those who go down to (and down into) the sea it is reverently recognized, as is manifest in the following deep-water version of the Fourth Commandment: Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh holystone the deck and scrape the cable. Decks are no longer holystoned, but the cable still supplies the captain with opportunity to attest a pious respect for the divine ordinance.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Although the proposed treaty did not arrest the progress of military preparation, it is doubtful how far the advance of the season, before good faith justified active movements, may retard them during the remainder of the year.
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	Those numberless afflictions, which render it doubtful whether heaven has given life to us in mercy or in wrath, are less felt, and sooner forgotten with them.
James Monroe	1817-1825	In cases of doubtful construction, especially of such vital interest, it comports with the nature and origin of our institutions, and will contribute much to preserve them, to apply to our constituents for an explicit grant of the power.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Even if our powers were less doubtful in this respect as the Constitution now stands, there are considerations afforded by recent experience which would seem to make it our duty to avoid a resort to such a system.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Doubtful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.60% of the time. "Doubtful" is used about 1,246 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.6%	1,241	6,304
Noun (proper)	0.4%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	1,246	N/A

Expressions using "doubtful": be doubtful ♦ be doubtful about ♦ be doubtful of ♦ doubtful account ♦ doubtful meaning ♦ doubtful person ♦ doubtful view ♦ feel doubtful about smth. ♦ have a doubtful meaning ♦ it is doubtful whether ♦ the result remains doubtful. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "doubtful": doubtful-looking.
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Language		Translations for "doubtful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dyshues (distrustful, doubting, dubious, incredulous, leery, mistrustful, queer, shady, suspicious, wary), plot dyshim, i pasigurt (chancy, crazy, Dickey, dicky, disputable, dubious, faithless, fly-by-night, incalculable, insecure, precarious, questionable, touch and go, tricksy, trustless, truthless, unassured, uncertain, unclear, unreliable, unsafe, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy), i paqartë (abstract, dark, dim, dubious, dusky, evasive, inarticulate, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, muddy, nebulous, obscure, out of focus, recondite, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undistinguishable, undistinguished, unknowable, unreadable, vague), i dyshimtë (dingy, dodgy, dubious, equivocal, fishy, left handed, misgiving, moot, precarious, problematic, queer, suspect, suspicious, unassured, uncertain, unreliable, wildcat). (various references)

Arabic		‏ملتبس (ambiguous, dubious, equivocal, obscure, uncertain, vague), ‏متردد (ambivalent, chary, double-minded, dubious, faint-hearted, faltering, flickering, haunting, hesitant, hesitating, indecisive, infirm, irresolute, remittent, stammerer, tentative, timid, uncertain, undecided, unsettled, vacillating, wavering), ‏مثير للريبة, ‏مريب (dubious, dubitable, equivocal, fishy, jack, problematic, queer, questionable, suspicious), ‏مرتاب (distrustful, doubting, in doubt, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious), ‏مشكوك فيه (dubious, dubitable, equivocal, fishy, questionable, suspicious), ‏مشبوه (dubious, dubitable, equivocal, fishy, suspect, suspected, suspicious, under suspicion), ‏غير مضمون (unofficial), ‏ظنان (distrustful, suspicious), ‏شاك (dubious, unbelieving). (various references)

Bulgarian		съмнителен (alleged, ambiguous, amphibious, dingy, disputable, dubious, equivocal, fishy, fly-by-night, hedge, hole-and-corner, indeterminate, moot, off beat, phoney, precarious, problematic, queer, questionable, screwy, seedy, shady, shaky, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unsure, vague), колеблив (backward, dubious, faltering, fitful, halting, hesitant, hesitating, infirm, irresolute, labile, pendulous, queasy, rickety, rocky, tardy, tentative, vacillating, versatile, wavering, wobbly, yo-yo), неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), подозрителен (distrustful, equivocal, jealous, leery, mistrustful, queer, suspect, suspicious). (various references)

Chinese		半信半疑 (Dubious), 儗 (emulate, imitate, suspicious). (various references)

Czech		pochybný (devious, disreputable, dodgy, dubious, equivocal, murky, problematical, questionable, seamy, seedy, shady, specious, suspect, unsavory), nejistý (afloat, chancy, cloudy, dubious, faltering, fluid, halting, insecure, jumpy, precarious, shaky, suspensive, tenuous, uncertain, undecided, uneasy, uneven, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unsure). (various references)

Danish		tvivlsom, ikke observeret. (various references)

Dutch		dubieus, discutabel. (various references)

Esperanto		dubinda, duba. (various references)

Farsi		مشکوک (Dubious, Esoteric, Precarious, Questionable, Shady, Skeptic, Suspicious, Uncertain). (various references)

Finnish		epävarma (insecure, not sure, uncertain, unsteady), epätietoinen (dubious, uncertain), epäröivä (hesitating, irresolute, undecided, wavering), epäilyttävä (suspect, suspicious), epäiltävä (dubious, suspicious), arveluttava (precarious, risky, suspicious), arveluttaa (precarious, risky, suspicious). (various references)

French		incertain. (various references)

German		fraglich (debatable, iffy, in question, questionable, uncertain, under discussion), zweifelhaftes. (various references)

Greek		προβληματικόσ (problematic, problematical, probleo), αμφίβολοσ (dubious, iffy), αμφίβολος (uncertain). (various references)

Hebrew		מוטל בספק (questionable), מפוקפק (apocryphal, dubious, equivocal, moot, questionable, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unfounded), ספקני (incredulous, sceptic, sceptical). (various references)

Hungarian		kétséges (dubious), kétes (dicey, dingy, dubious, equivocal, fishy, louche, obscure, precarious, queer, questionable, shady, unassured). (various references)

Indonesian		sangsi, curiga (distrustful, suspicious), ayal (slow). (various references)

Italian		dubbioso (doubt, doubtfully, dubious). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		訝しい (suspicious), 覚束ない (uncertain, unreliable), 疑わしい (disputable, questionable, suspicious, uncertain), 怪しい　 (dubious, suspicious), 怪しい (dubious, suspicious), 怪しげ　 (questionable, suspicious), 怪しげ (questionable, suspicious), 妖しい (dubious, suspicious). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おぼつかない (uncertain, unreliable), うたがわしい (disputable, questionable, suspicious, uncertain), いぶかしい (suspicious), あやしい (dubious, suspicious), あやしげ (questionable, suspicious). (various references)

Korean		의심스러운. (various references)

Malay		bimbang (doubt). (various references)

Manx		ouryssagh (agnostic, disputable, distrustful, doubting, dubious, mistrusting, moot, questionable, sceptic, sceptical, shady, suspecting, suspicious), dooyteilagh (doubter). (various references)

Papiamen		dudoso. (various references)

Pig Latin		oubtfulday.(various references)

Portuguese		duvidoso (controversial, disputable, doubting, dubious, fishy, questionable, shaky, suspicious, unassured, uncertain, unreliable, unsure, untrustworthy). (various references)

Romanian		dubios (dubious, equivocal, fishy, questionable, shady, suspicious, uncertain), discutabil (arguable, contentious, contestable, controversial, controvertible, debatable, disputable, impugnable, moot, questionable, undecided), suspect (doubtful person, dubious, equivocal, fishy, queer, questionable, shady, suspect, suspicious, suspiciously), problematic (problematic, problematical, problematically), nesigur (chancy, conjectural, dubious, erratic, fitful, hesitating, in doubt, inconstant, indecisive, insecure, irresolutely, rocky, ticklish, uncertain, unsafe), neprecis (dusty, lax, loose, neutral), nehotãrât (at pause, dubitative, hesitating, indecisive, indefinite, infirm of purpose, irresolute, namby-pamby, pendent, pending, undecided, vague), incert (uncertain), care nu oferã siguranţã, şovãitor (at pause, dubious, faltering, flexuous, halting, hesitant, hesitating, hesitatingly, irresolute, reluctant, shilly shally, tremulous, uncertain, undecided, wavering, waveringly), ambiguu (ambiguous, ambiguously, double, equivocal, multivocal, shady), îndoielnic (ambiguous, arguable, debatable, in doubt, lax, otiose, squint, suspicious, uncertain). (various references)

Russian		сомнительный (backhanded, disputable, dubious, equivocal, fishy, indeterminate, queer, questionable, suspicious, uncertain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sumnjiv (fishy, questionable, shady, suspect, suspicious), nesiguran (dickey, dicky, diffident, dotty, faltering, insecure, precarious, shaky, uncertain, uneasy, unsafe, unsound, unsure, waggly, wildcat, wonky), neizvestan (uncertain, unlikely). (various references)

Spanish		dudoso (chancy, doubtfully, dubious, indecisive, indefinite, problematic, problematical, questionable, touch and go, uncertain, unsuspected), de origen dudable, inseguro (diffident, doubting, firmless, insecure, loose, self conscious, shaky, uncertain, unsafe, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy), ambiguo (ambiguous, backhanded, bisexual, double, double-barrelled, equivocal, equivocally, left handed). (various references)

Swedish		tvivelaktig (dubious, dubitable, equivocal, exceptionable, fishy, iffy, moot, problematic, questionable, shady), betänklig (dangerous, dubious, grave, precarious, questionable). (various references)

Thai		สงสัย (doubt, dubious, suspect). (various references)

Turkish		tedirgin (agitated, bothersome, in a lather, irritated, obsessed, perturbed, solicitous, uneasy), sonucu kuşkulu, kuşkulu (creaky, debatable, distrustful, doubting, hesitant, indecisive, jaundiced, questionable, suspect, suspicious), kararsız (ambivalent, astatic, baffling, changeable, changeful, double-minded, dubious, erratic, faltering, fickle, flighty, fluctuating, flukey, fluky, fluxional, halting, hazy, hesitant, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, irresolute, precarious, restless, shilly shally, uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vagabond, vague, wayward, weak-kneed), şüpheli (chancy, contestable, creaky, debatable, discredited, disputable, dodgy, dubious, dubitative, 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)

Turkmen		юьbheli (dubious), gьmana (hardly possible, uncertain). (various references)

Ukrainian		сумнівний (apocryphal, dubious, equivocal, indeterminate, naughty, off color, off colour, precarious, problematic, problematical, queer, risky, shady, uncertain), неясний (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, blind, blurred, chancy, darkling, dusk, faint, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, misty, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, opaque, oracular, oraculous, recondite, shadowy, transcendental, unaccounted for, unclear, undistinguished, woolly, wooly), підозрілий (dubious, leery, mistrustful, questionable, rum, rummy, screwy, suspect, suspicious, wary), двозначний (ambiguous, amphibological, back-handed, double-barrelled, equivocal, forked, oracular, oraculous, two-edged). (various references)

Vietnamese		nghi ngại; không biết chắc, nghi ngờ (dubitative, entertainment, mistrustful, reffective), ngờ vực (askance, askant, defiant, dubitative, mistrustful), lưỡng lự (double-minded, dubious, dubitative, haltingly, hesitant, hesitatingly, hesitative, indecisive, seesaw, shilly-shally, undecided, unsteady), không chắc chắn do dự, hồ nghi đáng nghi, đáng ngờ; không rõ rệt. (various references)

Welsh		petrus (hesitating), ansicr (uncertain), annilys (false, spurious, unauthentic), amheus (ambiguous, doubting, dubious, suspicious), amheuol (doubting). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ambigua, ambiguum, ambiguus, ancipitem, ancipites, ancipiti, dubiae, dubio, dubiosus, dubium, incerta, incertam, incerti, incerto, incertum, incertus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Romans Chapter 14, Verse 1
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Ton de asqenounta th pistei proslambanesqe mh eiV diakriseiV dialogismwn
Latin	405	Vulgate	Infirmum autem in fide adsumite non in disceptationibus cogitationum
Old English	990	West Saxon	Andfang þone þæs geleafa untrume is, ac ne deme geflitlice þing.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	But take ye a sijk man in bileue, not in demyngis of thouytis.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Him that is weake in the fayth receave vnto you not in disputynge and troublynge his conscience.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.
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Language	Romans Chapter 14, Verse 1
Cebuano	¶ Mahitungod sa tawo nga maluyag pagtoo, dawata ninyo siya, apan dili aron sa pagsaway sa iyang mga dinahumdahum.
Chinese	信心軟弱的、你們要接納、但不要辯論所疑惑的事。
Croatian	Slaboga u vjeri prigrlite, ali ne da se prepirete o mišljenjima.
Danish	Men tager eder af den, som er skrøbelig i Troen, og dømmer ikke hans Meninger!
Dutch	Dengene nu, die zwak is in het geloof, neemt aan, maar niet tot twistige samensprekingen.
Finnish	Heikkouskoista hoivatkaa, rupeamatta väittelemään mielipiteistä.
French	Faites accueil à celui qui est faible dans la foi, et ne discutez pas sur les opinions.
German	Den Schwachen im Glauben nehmet auf und verwirrt die Gewissen nicht.
Haitian Creole	¶ Se pou n' resevwa moun ki fèb nan konfyans yo byen san nou pa bezwen diskite openyon yo genyen.
Hungarian	A hitben erõtelent fogadjátok be, nem ítélgetvén vélekedéseit.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Orang yang tidak yakin akan apa yang dipercayainya harus diterima dengan baik di antara Saudara-saudara. Jangan bertengkar dengan dia mengenai pendirian-pendiriannya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Adapun orang yang lemah imannya itu kamu sambutlah, tetapi bukannya dengan maksud berbalah-balah di dalam hal yang waham.
Italian	Accogliete tra voi chi è debole nella fede, senza discuterne le esitazioni.
Maori	¶ Ko te tangata he ngoikore te whakapono, manakohia, kauaka ia ki nga tautohe whakaaro.
Norwegian	Ta eder av den som er svak i troen, uten å sette eder til doms over hans tanker!
Portuguese	Ora, ao que é fraco na fé, acolhei-o, mas não para condenar-lhe os escrúpulos.
Rumanian	Primiyi bine pe cel slab kn credinyq, wi nu vq apucayi la vorbq asupra pqrerilor kndoelnice.
Russian	оЕНПЭОПЗП Ч ЧЕТЕ РТЙОЙНБКФЕ ВЕЪ УРПТПЧ П НОЕОЙСИ.
Shuar	¶ Shuar Yúsan ishichik Enentáimtana nu itiaatarum tura kakantrairap.
Spanish	Recibid al débil en la fe, pero no para contender sobre opiniones.
Swahili	Mkaribisheni kwenu mtu aliye dhaifu, lakini msibishane naye juu ya mawazo yake binafsi.
Swedish	Plikter mot de svaga i tron, som hysa betänkligheter rörande vissa utvärtes ting.
Uma	¶ Ria ompi' hampepangalaa' -ta hantongo' to ko'ia moroho pepangala' -ra, alaa-na morara' nono-ra mpobabehi ba hangkuja nyala gau'. Kana tatarima lompe' -ra tauna to hewa toe. Nau' mosisala ada-ra hante ada-ta, neo' toe rapomehonoi'.
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "doubtful": doubtfully, doubtfulness, doubtfulnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Doubtful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Boutboul, doubful, doubtfull, doubtfuls, doubtlful, doutfull, Doutoum. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "doubtful" (pronounced dou"tful)
4	-t f u l	artful, boastful, deceitful, delightful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, eventful, fateful, fistful, fitful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, grateful, hateful, hurtful, spiteful, tactful, tasteful, insightful, lustful, mistrustful, neglectful, regretful, resentful, respectful, restful, rightful, thoughtful, uneventful, ungrateful, wasteful, wistful, zestful.
3	-f u l	apocryphal, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, disdainful, disgraceful, doleful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fearful, flavorful, forceful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, harmful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, sorrowful, soulful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tearful, thankful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mournful, muffle, needful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, remorseful, reshuffle, resourceful, riffle, rifle, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, unfaithful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, watchful, willful, wishful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-f-l-o-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: tubful.
	-3 letters: doubt, flout.
	-4 letters: blot, bold, bolt, bout, dolt, flub, fold, foul, loft, loud, lout, tofu, told, tolu.
	-5 letters: bod, bot, bud, but, dol, dot, dub, duo, flu, fob, fou, fub, fud, lob, lot, oft, old, oud, out, tod, tub, udo, ulu.
	Words containing the letters "b-d-f-l-o-t-u-u"
	+2 letters: doubtfully, outbluffed, outfumbled.
	+4 letters: doubtfulness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day
account allowance doubtful	9
doubtful sound	6
doubtful guest	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Doubtful

Definition: Doubtful

Doubtful

Adjective

Specialty Definition: Doubtful

Synonyms: Doubtful

Synonyms within Context: Doubtful

Improbability

Inquiry

Unbelief Doubt

Uncertainty

Unintelligibility

Crosswords: Doubtful

Modern Usage: Doubtful

Lyrics

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Doubtful

Books

Photo Album: Doubtful

Digital Photo Gallery: Doubtful

Familiar Quotations: Doubtful

John Stuart Mill

Queen Victoria

Sallust

Historic Usage: Doubtful

John Locke

Brown v. Board of Education

Use in Literature: Doubtful

Emma

Austen, Jane

Through the Looking-Glass

Carroll, Lewis

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Doubtful

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Doubtful

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

James Monroe

Andrew Jackson

Usage Frequency: Doubtful

Expressions: Doubtful

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Doubtful

Modern Translation: Doubtful

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