Doubt

Verb

 * 1) To lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.
 * 2)  To fear; to suspect.

Noun

 * 1) Uncertainty, disbelief.

Adjectives for Doubt
premonitory; wondering; casual; growing; reasonable; prudent; impending; recurring; faint; presumptuous; insinuating; audacious; uneasy; horrid; black; wistful; serious; disturbing; grisly; consuming; bitter; sickening; momentary; angry; torturing; cynical; passionate; formless; unmerited; nagging; insidious; mean; conflicting; anxious; painful; pecuniary; timid; sarcastic; considerable; solitary; lingering; inseparable; floating; paralyzing; melancholy; remorseful; hideous; sorrowing; thronging; rational; hopeless; jealous; tragic; unwelcome; injurious; dark; coquettish; blasphemous; unclaimed; childish; oft-repeated; religious; unanswerable; good-humored; constitutional; grave; fiendish; sagacious; cloudy; broken; desperate; earthly.

Verbs for Doubt
assail with—; attend with—; banish—; breed—; brush away—; burden with—; cast into—; chill with—; circulate—; clear up—; cloud with—; conceive—; convey—; crush—; defy—; dissipate—; dissolve—; eliminate—; entertain—; erase—; express —; falter in—; fight—; interpose—; occasion—; oppress with—; raise—; remove—; rend with—; resolve—; strike with—; sustain—; sweep away—; torture with—; trouble by—; voice—; wrap in—; wring with—; —creeps in; —encompasses; —incenses; —lingers; —lurks; —overshadows; —prevails; —pursues; —springs up; — stabs; —taints.

Adverbs for Doubt
casually; growingly; reasonably; recurringly; seriously; disturbingly; consumingly; sickeningly; momentarily; formlessly; painfully; jealously; childishly; gravely; sagaciously; paralyzingly.

Synonyms for Doubt
distrust, disbelief, dubiousness, agnosticism, concern, qualm, quandry, question, incredulity, unbelief, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty, scruple, misgiving, perplexity, indecision, suspense, hesitancy, irresolution, hesitation, mistrust.

Antonyms for Doubt
faith, trust, fidelity, confidence, belief, credence, conviction, reliance, assurance, certainty, dependence.

Related terms

 * benefit of the doubt
 * beyond a shadow of a doubt
 * beyond doubt
 * beyond reasonable doubt
 * doubtable
 * doubter
 * doubtful
 * doubting Thomas


 * doubtless
 * no doubt
 * reasonable doubt
 * shadow of a doubt
 * self-doubt
 * undoubtedly
 * without doubt

Thesaurus
agnosticism, agonize over, all-overs, anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, awake a doubt, be at sea, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be possessive, be skeptical, be uncertain, beat about, call in question, challenge, concern, confutability, contest, contestability, controvertibility, deniability, diffidence, disbelief, disbelieve, discredit, disputability, dispute, disquiet, distrust, distrustfulness, doubtful, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, dubitancy, fear, feel unsure, flounder, fluctuate, foreboding, greet with skepticism, grope, half believe, half-belief, harbor suspicions, have reservations, hesitate, hesitation, in doubt, incertitude, incredulity, irresolution, leeriness, misdoubt, misgive, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, puzzle over, qualm, qualmishness, query, question, questionableness, raise a question, refutability, reservations, scepticism, scoff, scoffing, scruple, scrupulousness, self-doubt, shadow of doubt, skepticalness, skepticism, smell a rat, suspect, suspicion, suspiciousness, thrash about, throw doubt upon, total skepticism, treat with reserve, unbelief, uncertainty, vacillate, wariness, waver, wonder, wonder whether, worry

Etymology 1
From douten from  douter from  douter, from  dubitare. Replaced tweonien "to doubt" (from  twēonian, compare  twēo "doubt, duplicity"). The modern spelling is probably under the influence of doubter:.

Etymology 2
doute: < and  doute: <  dubita:. The modern spelling is probably under the influence of doubte:.

Verb

 * Arabic: شك
 * Armenian: կասկածել (kaskaçel)
 * Bulgarian: съмнявам се
 * Catalan: dubtar
 * Chinese:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kõhklema
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: kétségbe von, megkérdőjelez,  kételkedik,  kétell
 * Ido: dubar
 * Indonesian: ragu, bimbang, ragu akan, meragukan
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:, 訝しむ,  疑問する, 不審に思う (ふしんにおもう, fushin-ni omou)
 * Korean: 의심한 위하여 (uisimhan wihayeo)
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: šaubīties
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: (в (v) + prepositional case)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak: pochybovať
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: సందేహించు (sandehinchu), శంకించు (SaMkiMchu)
 * Turkish: şüphelenmek, kuşkulanmak
 * Ukrainian: сумніватися (sumnivátysja)

Noun

 * American Sign Language: V@NearNose-PalmBack BentV@FromChin
 * Arabic: (shakk)
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: съмнение
 * Catalan: dubte
 * Chinese: 怀疑, 疑惑, 疑问
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kõhklus
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Old French:
 * German:
 * Greek: αμφιβολία (amphibolía)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: keraguan, kebimbangan
 * Interlingua: dubita
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 不審 (ふしん, fushin), 疑い (うたがい, utagai), 疑問 (ぎもん, gimon)
 * Kazakh: күмән,


 * Korean: 의혹 (uihog)
 * Kurdish:, , şube, gûş, hulhul, şûf,
 * Latin: dubitas ; dubitatio ,
 * Latvian: šaubas
 * Lithuanian: abejonė, (rare) dvejonė
 * Manx: ,
 * Norwegian: tvil
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, îndoială
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:, , mì-chinnt
 * Slovak: pochybnosť
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: tvekan (uncountable), tvivel
 * Telugu: సందేహము (sandehamu), శంక (SaMka)
 * Turkish:, kuşku
 * Ukrainian: сумнів (súmniv)
 * Volapük: dot
 * West Frisian: