Definition of doubtful

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Doubtful (a.) Of uncertain issue or event.

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Doubtful :: Doubtful (a.) Of uncertain issue or event.
Equivocate :: Equivocate (a.) To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity..
Indubitate :: Indubitate (a.) Not questioned or doubtful; evident; certain.
Disputable :: Disputable (v. i.) Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions..
Dubiety :: Dubiety (n.) Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.
Ambiguity :: Ambiguity (n.) The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression..
Apocrypha :: Apocrypha (n. pl.) Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively..
Doubtful :: Doubtful (a.) 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..
Scrupulous :: Scrupulous (a.) Liable to be doubted; doubtful; nice.
Critical :: Critical (n.) Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical stage of a fever; a critical situation..
Selah :: Selah (n.) A word of doubtful meaning, occuring frequently in the Psalms; by some, supposed to signify silence or a pause in the musical performance of the song..
Mangrove :: Mangrove (n.) The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aerial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant..
Tolerate :: Tolerate (v. t.) To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices..
Ambiloquy :: Ambiloquy (n.) Doubtful or ambiguous language.
Dubiosity :: Dubiosity (n.) The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing.
Dubitative :: Dubitative (a.) Tending to doubt; doubtful.
Scrupulous :: Scrupulous (a.) Full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong..
Wappened :: Wappened (a.) A word of doubtful meaning used once by Shakespeare.
Incertain :: Incertain (n.) Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady.
Mammer :: Mammer (v. i.) To hesitate; to mutter doubtfully.
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