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doubt

English

Etymology

The verb is derived from Middle English douten (“to doubt, fear, worry”) [and other forms], from Old French douter, doter, duter (compare Middle French doubter), from Latin dubitāre (“to be uncertain, doubt; to hesitate, waver in coming to an opinion; to consider, ponder”); the further etymology is uncertain, but one theory is that dubitō may be derived from dubius (“fluctuating, wavering; doubtful, dubious, uncertain”), from duhibius (“held as two”), from duo (“two”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”)) + habeō (“to have, hold”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”)). Spelling reformers of the early modern period added the letter b to reflect the Latin root dubitō, but it has never been pronounced in English.

The noun is derived from Middle English dout, doute (“uncertainty, hesitation; questionable point; anxiety, fear, reverence”) [and other forms], from Old French doute, dote, dute (“uncertain feeling, doubt”), from doter, douter, duter (“to doubt, fear”) (compare Middle French doubter; modern French douter (“to doubt, suspect”)); see further etymology above.

Displaced Old English twēo (“doubt”) and twēoġan (“to doubt”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: dout, IPA^(key): /daʊt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /dʌʊt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt
• Homophone: dought

Verb

doubt (third-person singular simple present doubts, present participle doubting, simple past and past participle doubted)

1. (ambitransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.

   Synonyms: distrust, mistrust
2. (transitive, archaic outside Scotland) To harbour suspicion about; suspect.
3. (transitive, archaic) To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To fill with fear; to affright.
5. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To dread, to fear.

Usage notes

• In archaic usage, the phrase after "doubt" is what the doubter worries may be the case; in modern usage, that phrase is what the doubter worries may not be the case. Thus the archaic "I doubt he may be lying" is equivalent to the modern "I doubt he is telling the truth" or "I fear he may be lying."
• In Scotland the archaic usage is still current but with a meaning broadened beyond worry: to doubt something is to consider it likely, so examples include not just "I doubt he's lying," but also "I doubt we'll arrive before dark."

Derived terms

Related terms

• dubiety
• dubious

Translations

Noun

doubt (countable and uncountable, plural doubts)

1. (uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.

   Antonyms: belief, confidence, faith
2. (countable, obsolete or India) A point of uncertainty, especially a yes/no or a multiple-choice question

   Synonym: disbelief

   Antonyms: belief, tenet

   Hypernym: query

Alternative forms

• dout (obsolete)

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Further reading

• doubt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia