doubtful
adjective /ˈdaʊt.fəl/Definition
B2 If you are doubtful about something, you are uncertain about it: The teacher is doubtful about having parents working as classroom assistants.Doubt and ambivalenceHesitating B2 If a situation is doubtful, it is unlikely to happen or to be successful: It is doubtful whether/if they ever reached the summit before they died. It was doubtful that the money would ever be found again.UncertaintyHesitatingAchievable doubtfully /-i/ adverb › "Are you telling me the truth?" he asked doubtfully.Doubt and ambivalenceHesitating
(Definition of doubtful adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be neither fish nor fowl idiom
- blurred adjective
- circumstantial adjective
- conflicted adjective
- debatable adjective
- definite maybe noun
- dodgy adjective (NOT RELIABLE)
- fuzzy adjective (NOT CLEAR)
- joker in the pack idiom
- kind of idiom
- kinda adverb
- knife edge noun
- knife-edge adjective (UNCERTAIN)
- sputter verb (ACTIVITY)
- tenuous adjective
- there's no knowing idiom
- touch-and-go adjective
- uncertain adjective
- uncertainty noun
- unclear adjective
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