Dubious

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English

Adjective

Dubious (comparative more Dubious, superlative most Dubious)

  1. Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion.
  2. In disbelief; wavering, uncertain, or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt; undecided.

Adverbs for Dubious

momentarily; strangely; horribly; anxiously; painfully; oddly; ominously; curiously; embarrassingly; remarkably; terribly; openly; dreadfully; frightfully; vaguely; frankly ; obscurely.

Synonyms for Dubious

doubtful, wavering, hesitant, unclear, equivocal, unsure, suspicious, unreliable, unsettled, problematic, uncertain, questionable, reluctant.

Antonyms for Dubious

certain, sure, definite, positive.

Derived terms

Thesaurus

Humean, Pyrrhonic, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, agnostic, ambitendent, ambivalent, amoral, arguable, at issue, at loose ends, beguiling, beyond belief, capricious, catchy, changeable, confutable, conjectural, conscienceless, contestable, controversial, controvertible, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, debatable, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory, deniable, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, disinclined, disputable, distrustful, double-minded, doubtable, doubtful, doubting, dubitable, equivocal, evasive, fallacious, false, felonious, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, fishy, fly-by-night, fraudulent, from Missouri, hallucinatory, hard of belief, hard to believe, hardly possible, hesitant, iffy, ill-got, ill-gotten, illusive, illusory, immoral, implausible, improbable, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, inconceivable, incredible, incredulous, indecisive, indirect, infirm of purpose, insecure, insidious, irresolute, irresolved, leery, mercurial, misleading, mistakable, mistrustful, mistrusting, moot, more than doubtful, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mutable, not deserving belief, not kosher, of two minds, open, open to doubt, open to question, open to suspicion, passing belief, preposterous, problematic, questionable, questioning, refutable, reluctant, ridiculous, rocky, rotten, scrupulous, shady, shaky, shameless, shifty, shy, sinister, skeptic, skeptical, slippery, speculative, staggering belief, suppositional, suspect, suspecting, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, tottery, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, trustless, unbelievable, uncertain, unclear, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, unconvincing, undecided, undependable, underhand, underhanded, undetermined, unearthly, unethical, ungodly, unhealthy, unimaginable, unlikely, unpredictable, unprincipled, unpromising, unreliable, unresolved, unsafe, unsavory, unscrupulous, unsettled, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unstraightforward, unsure, unthinkable, untrusting, untrustworthy, untrusty, unworthy of belief, wary, without remorse, without shame

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