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Doubtful

Doubtful (doubtful)
a.(?)
Doubt"ful
  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.

    Methinks I should know you, and know this man;
    Yet I am doubtful.
    Shak.

    With doubtful feet and wavering resolution. Milton.

  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.

    Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good. Shak.

    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.

  3. Characterized by ambiguity; dubious; as, a doubtful expression; a doubtful phrase.
  4. Of uncertain issue or event.

    We . . . have sustained one day in doubtful fight. Milton.

    The strife between the two principles had been long, fierce, and doubtful. Macaulay.

  5. Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious.
    [Obs.]

    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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