doubts

[doubt]

Doubt is distrust or suspicion. When your kid sister explains that a robber broke in and ate your entire chocolate stash, most likely you feel doubt.

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To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.

Noun
uncertainty about the truth or factuality of existence of something; "the dubiousness of his claim"; "there is no question about the validity of the enterprise"

Noun
the state of being unsure of something

Verb
consider unlikely or have doubts about; "I doubt that she will accept his proposal of marriage"

Verb
lack confidence in or have doubts about; "I doubt these reports"; "I suspect her true motives"; "she distrusts her stepmother"


v. i.
To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.

v. i.
To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive.

v. t.
To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.

v. t.
To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of.

v. t.
To fill with fear; to affright.

v. i.
A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.

v. i.
Uncertainty of condition.

v. i.
Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread.

v. i.
Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.


Doubt

Doubt , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Douted; p. pr. & vb. n. Doubting.] [OE. duten, douten, OF. duter, doter, douter, F. douter, fr. L. dubitare; akin to dubius doubtful. See Dubious.] 1. To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.
Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt, and suspend our judgment.
To try your love and make you doubt of mine.
2. To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive. [Obs.] Syn. -- To waver; vacillate; fluctuate; hesitate; demur; scruple; question.

Doubt

Doubt, v. t. 1. To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.
To admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
I doubt not that however changed, you keep So much of what is graceful.
To doubt not but.
I do not doubt but I have been to blame.
We doubt not now But every rub is smoothed on our way.
That is, we have no doubt to prevent us from believing, etc. (or notwithstanding all that may be said to the contrary) -- but having a preventive sense, after verbs of "doubting" and "denying" that convey a notion of hindrance. E. A. Abbott.
2. To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of. [Obs.]
Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God.
I doubt some foul play.
That I of doubted danger had no fear.
3. To fill with fear; to affright. [Obs.]
The virtues of the valiant Caratach More doubt me than all Britain.

Doubt

Doubt, n. [OE. dute, doute, F. doute, fr. douter to doubt. See Doubt, v. i.] 1. A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.
Doubt is the beginning and the end of our efforts to know.
Doubt, in order to be operative in requiring an acquittal, is not the want of perfect certainty (which can never exist in any question of fact) but a defect of proof preventing a reasonable assurance of quilt.
2. Uncertainty of condition.
Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee.
3. Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread. [Obs.]
I stand in doubt of you.
Nor slack her threatful hand for danger's doubt.
4. Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.
To every doubt your answer is the same.
No doubt, undoubtedly; without doubt. -- Out of doubt, beyond doubt. [Obs.] Spenser. Syn. -- Uncertainty; hesitation; suspense; indecision; irresolution; distrust; suspicion; scruple; perplexity; ambiguity; skepticism.

To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.

To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.

A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.

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Usage Examples

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

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Other Usage Examples

Doubt grows with knowledge.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

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