[
US
/ˈdaʊt/
]
[ UK /dˈaʊt/ ]
[ UK /dˈaʊt/ ]
NOUN
-
uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something
the dubiousness of his claim
there is no question about the validity of the enterprise - the state of being unsure of something
VERB
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consider unlikely or have doubts about
I doubt that she will accept his proposal of marriage -
lack confidence in or have doubts about
I suspect her true motives
she distrusts her stepmother
I doubt these reports
How To Use doubt In A Sentence
- The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
- No doubt a couple of sleazoids will appear, maybe even a saboteur.
- I don't doubt a lot of signaling is going on but suspect even more mis-signaling. Tyler May Not Agree With Me On Education, But His Inner Economist Does, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- Week two, however, was just a killer and has me doubting the talent in a lot of areas that I thought were all set.
- I must give one instance; he throws doubts and sneers at my saying that the ovigerous frena of cirripedes have been converted into branchiae, because I have not found them to be branchiae; whereas he himself admits, before I wrote on cirripedes, without the least hesitation, that their organs are branchiae. Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences
- Most people have no doubt that they are a money spinner and in some part of the country they are being pulled down.
- Ten of his team are definitely travelling but there are doubts about the other two.
- The value of all this free promotion is incalculable, which is no doubt why so many Republicans are using politics as merely a way to cash in big time as nothing more than entertainers. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Weiner Roast
- A shame since it includes the weapons, sabotage devices and other inventions which undoubtedly frustrated the German forces.
- This ought to have been fine - if Phaethon had not been like a rock-star's child with a new red Ferrari, scorching off the track, shrivelling crops, turning forest to desert, doubtless melting ice-caps if the Greeks had known about ice-caps, and only stopping when Zeus called a halt with a well-aimed world-saving thunderbolt. Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: