Dubious
['djuːbɪəs] or ['dubɪəs]
Definition
(adj.) not convinced; 'they admitted the force of my argument but remained dubious' .
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Definition
(a.) Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.
(a.) Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.
(a.) Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Uncertain, doubtful, equivocal, ambiguous, not plain, not clear.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See EQUIVOCAL]
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Definition
adj. doubtful: undetermined: causing doubt: of uncertain event or issue.—adv. Dū′biously.—ns. Dū′biousness Dubī′ety Dubios′ity doubtfulness.
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Examples
- His manners, however, must have been unmarked, wavering, dubious, or she could not have been so misled. Jane Austen. Emma.
- A fortnight of dubious calm succeeded my return to Thornfield Hall. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mr. Cruncher was soothed, but shook his head in a dubious and moral way. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- His inference is more or less dubious and hypothetical. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Which, I think,' observed Mr. Bob Sawyer, pursuing the thread of the subject--'which, I think, Ben, are rather dubious. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I dare say Tarzan of the Apes is watching us all right, he answered, in a dubious tone. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- When Miss Pinkerton had finished the inscription in the first, Jemima, with rather a dubious and timid air, handed her the second. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The beer has reminded me that I forgot, Bob--yes; they _are _dubious. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In spite of Fulton’s gloomy tone in his letter there were many among the men and women who made the first trip with him who were not dubious concerning the invention. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the _Houyhnhnms_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- What's dubious? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- What's rather dubious? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He conducted the young lady down to dinner in a dubious and agitated frame of mind. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Dubious results are not tolerated for a moment in Edison's experimental work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His Majesty's revenues are seldom collected in this happy valley; the rents are dubious; and the water communication is very frequently cut off. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She stepped aside when Mrs. Rougemont the actress passed with her dubious family. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I took a revel of the scene; I drank the elastic night-air--the swell of sound, the dubious light, now flashing, now fading. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A very large part of the government grant had been spent, and the situation looked very dubious. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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